PUTRAJAYA: Five new Covid-19 cases have been recorded in the country, with three local transmissions linked to the Terendak Camp’s military hospital in Melaka. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the three cases were not classified as part of a cluster yet. Two of the patients were found to be positive following pre-surgery Covid-19 screening.
“We have screened about 100,000 individuals in the country before surgeries. In these cases, one of them came in for cataract surgery and the other one for hand surgery.