Contact tracing carried out at Bahau wet market after trader tested positive for Covid-19


JEMPOL (Bernama): Authorities have interviewed about 100 traders and workers of the Bahau wet market here in a bid to carry out contact tracing after one of the traders was found to have tested positive for Covid-19.

State Urban Well-being, Housing, Local Government and New Villages committee chairman Teo Kok Seong said that as a result of the interview, which was conducted at Medan Niaga Bahau from 8am Monday (April 27), those found to be close contacts of the infected trader would be sent to the Bahau Health Clinic for swab tests before being transferred to a centre to undergo quarantine for 14 days.

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