Efforts underway to ease overstretched medical facilities in Tawau, says Masidi


KOTA KINABALU: Efforts are underway to ease congestion at the hospital and quarantine centres that are reaching full capacity in Sabah's east coast Tawau amid rising Covid-19 cases.

Sabah Covid-19 spokesman Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun (pic) said that the state Health Department was taking necessary action to resolve the problems of three quarantine centres that had reached nearly full capacity.

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