Covid-19 clusters cause new cases to hover at four-digit levels

Covid-19 | With 348 Covid-19 clusters still active and reporting new cases, Malaysia continues to grapple with four-digit new infections every day.

It is obvious from the Health Ministry’s daily Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation Report that the two main types of clusters triggering new cases are those linked to the workplace and community.

The hotbeds for the transmission of the deadly coronavirus are, in fact, workplaces such as factories, construction sites, construction companies, business centres, education centres and public administrative centres.

Community clusters are mainly linked to weddings and other social events.

Over the week under review (April 3 to 8), 47 new clusters...