Nearly 1,000 villagers in Tawar district screened


By GC TANN. TRISHA

Hard at work: Medical personnel filling up forms for villagers who underwent Covid-19 tests at the Tawar health clinic.

ALOR SETAR: Nearly 1,000 villagers in Kedah’s Tawar district have been screened for Covid-19 following the emergence of a new cluster where nine members of a family were found to be infected.

The villagers queued up as early as 7.45am yesterday at the Tawar health clinic to undergo a nasal swab test and throat swab test.

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