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Health DG: 8,000 tahfiz students next focus for Covid-19 targeted testing
CORONAVIRUS | Over 8,000 tahfiz students from different madrasah nationwide is the Health Ministry's next focus in its Covid-19 targeted testing activities, said Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The Health Ministry director-general told a press conference today they have so far managed to screen and take samples from 1,736 students who were still at their schools.
"Our target after the Sri Petaling tabligh gathering (cluster) would be students of tahfiz schools. There are 8,616 tahfiz students (who have been identified for tests).
"So far, we have screened 1,736 students at the schools, while many of the others have already gone back to their homes," he said.
According to Noor Hisham, 217 of the students screened have tested positive so far.
The Health Ministry director-general told a press conference today they have so far managed to screen and take samples from 1,736 students who were still at their schools.
"Our target after the Sri Petaling tabligh gathering (cluster) would be students of tahfiz schools. There are 8,616 tahfiz students (who have been identified for tests).
"So far, we have screened 1,736 students at the schools, while many of the others have already gone back to their homes," he said.
According to Noor Hisham, 217 of the students screened have tested positive so far.
This is much higher than the percentage of those tested positive from the tabligh gathering cluster, which was around eight percent.
Noor Hisham stressed it is important to test the students and all their close contacts to detect positive cases among them.
"Now, what we need to do is conduct screening and testing on the tahfiz students, with the cooperation of the police and other agencies," he said.
Based on an infographic provided by MOH, health authorities have detected a total of four clusters involving madrasah schools so far.
The four schools are located in Jerantut, Pahang; Penanti, Penang; Sungai Lui, Selangor; and Jasin in Melaka.
It listed the number of positive cases that the authorities traced back to the four clusters, totalling 233 cases including the 217 students.
As I have said many times, screen them all before they balik kampung for Ramadan/Raya and sprout countless clusters. Many have already returned.
ReplyDeleteThere are more than 570 registered tahfiz schools nationwide, many of them managed by Jakim. Many many more unregistered sekolah pondok bawah pokok. They are not managed by MOE.
Disaster waiting to happen.
but our number in term of infected over population seem lower compare to spore, could it be our dg is a muslim while spore one a non muslim? or bec out govt is mainly malay muslim while spore one r chinese? interesting point for racist to conduct a research on this.
ReplyDeletebut our number in term of infected over population seem lower compare to spore, could it be our dg is a muslim while spore one a non muslim? or bec out govt is mainly malay muslim while spore one r chinese? interesting point for racist to conduct a research on this.
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