{"id":5254,"date":"2020-07-29T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T03:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=5254"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T03:04:27","slug":"covid-19-kuching-declared-a-red-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=5254","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Kuching declared a red zone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KUCHING, July 28  — From yellow zone, Kuching has now become a red zone after 16 local COVID-19 cases were reported said State Disaster Management Committee (JPBN) chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said this brings the total local transmission cases in the district to 52 in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Samarahan, Serian, Bau, and Lundu districts have also changed their status from the green\u00a0to yellow zone. Thirty-five districts are still categorised as green zones,” he said\u00a0during the\u00a0daily press conference\u00a0on\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0at the\u00a0old State Legislative Assembly\u00a0building here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday, JPBN announced business operating hours in zone one (yellow\/red zone) namely in Kuching, Samarahan, and Serian are limited to between 6 am and 10 pm effective Aug 1 to14 in a bid to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uggah, who is also the Deputy Chief Minister said JPBN has also decided that all non-Malaysians who wish to enter Sarawak from abroad need to undergo the Real-Time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test three days before leaving their country of origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUpon arrival in Sarawak, they will be quarantined for 14 days during which the  RT-PCR test will be conducted on the second and 10th day. Quarantine and RT-PCR test costs are at their own expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs for the guidelines for oil and gas industry workers, Malaysians from the peninsula, Labuan, Sabah, and foreign nationals, they will be placed in quarantine centres for 14 days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe RT-PCR test will be taken on the second and 10th day. If the results come out negative, they will be allowed to go to the oil rigs,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarawak recorded 25 positive COVID-19 cases today, bringing to the cumulative total to 675 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new cluster, known as \u2018Pasar Satok\u2019 was declared by the Ministry of Health, making a total of 10 COVID-19 clusters that are still active in Sarawak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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