Masidi: Spike in Sabah due to clusters, not variants


KOTA KINABALU: Sabah’s sudden spike in cases was due to many clusters, and nothing to do with any variant of concern (VOC), says state Covid-19 spokesman Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun (pic).

“For Sabah, it’s the normal Covid-19 variant, but there are just too many clusters,” Masidi said when commenting on the high infectivity rate in Sabah that saw the RO at 1.25.“Our targeted approach is to nip the problem in the bud by immediately trying to control the spread of the infection via imposing localised enhanced movement control order (MCO),” he said in explaining the reason why Sabah was seeing higher numbers of cases over the last four-days - doubling from the daily 300 cases to over 600.

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