Covid-19: Hotel employee triggers new cluster in Kundasang


KOTA KINABALU: A new Covid-19 cluster triggered by a hotel employee in Sabah's popular tourist hotspot on the foothills of Mount Kinabalu in Kundasang has recorded 40 cases so far.

Sabah Covid-19 spokesman Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun said that the index case for the Jalan Kem Bina cluster involved a worker with the Perkasa Hotel in Kundasang who was tested positive during a symptomatic screening.

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