Furniture maker stops work


Temporary closure: The entrance to the Poh Huat Furniture Industries Sdn Bhd factory located at the Bukit Pasir industrial area in Muar. Disinfection of the premises will be conducted until Feb 3.

MUAR: Most of the 543 workers who tested positive for Covid-19 at Poh Huat Furniture Industries Sdn Bhd (PHFI) here displayed no symptoms, according to a company official.

The official, who declined to be named, said about 1,400 of its employees in the Bukit Pasir industrial area here underwent a Covid-19 screening on Jan 21 and results showed 543 of them to have contracted the virus, of whom 31 were locals.

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