Selangor Journal
A healthcare worker stores a sample taken from the Covid-19 mass screening on residents in the Hulu Langat district, on April 12, 2020. — Picture by HAFIZ OTHMAN/SELANGORKINI

11 daily Covid-19 cases recorded in Selangor are imported, says MB

By Ashwin Kumar

SHAH ALAM, April 22 — The 11 confirmed Covid-19 cases recorded in Selangor yesterday involves the Malaysians who have returned from overseas and are currently placed under a two-week quarantine in the state.

Selangor Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari said none of the new cases registered came from local infection.

“Alhamdulillah (all praises be to Allah), based on the statistics, no new cases were recorded in Selangor today (yesterday).

“The 11 new cases are of three individuals who had returned from Istanbul while the remaining eight from Surabaya. They are now under quarantine in Selangor,” he wrote on his official Twitter account yesterday.

Meanwhile, according to an infographic shared by the Selangor Task Force for Covid-19 (STFC) on Twitter last night, the state has 320 active Covid-19 cases out of the total tally of 1,356.

Based on the recorded active cases, only one township in the state is classified as a red zone, which is Hulu Langat with 52 cases.

Three districts in the state are classified as red zones according to the number of active cases, namely Petaling with 106 cases, Hulu Langat (96), and Klang (51).

The total number of Covid-19 cases nationwide is 5,482, with 2,041 active cases.

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