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Health DG: Two new Covid-19 clusters detected in the country

Dec 09, 2020

The Health Ministry has detected two new Covid-19 clusters in the Klang Valley and Negeri Sembilan.

The Seruling cluster in Selangor was detected after screenings at a workplace.

This comes as the number of recovered COVID-19 patients has exceeded the number of new infections.

1,750 patients were released from hospital yesterday, compared to 1,012 new cases.

Water discharged from an illegal catfish pond has been identified as the cause of odour pollution which halted four water treatment plants in Sungai Selangor on Monday

State officials say the initial investigation detected a foul odour believed to be of dead fish in the samples of raw water obtained from Sungai Selangor.

Meanwhile, water supply has been fully restored to 53% of the 861 areas in the Klang Valley that were affected by the brief shutdown.

Water sport activities and swimming are now allowed in Penang, including the two districts under the conditional MCO.

However, the maximum capacity at each sports and recreational premises in the CMCO areas must not be more than 50% of the full capacity.