KUCHING: Sarawak recorded no new positive Covid-19 case on Saturday for the fourth consecutive day, with the total number of cases in the state remaining at 556.
The Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) said that two new cases had recovered and been discharged from Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) on Saturday.
“This means that the total number of positive Covid-19 cases which have recovered and been discharged is 533, or 95.86 percent,” it said.
“Fourteen new person-under-investigation (PUI) cases have been reported, and seven are still pending laboratory results,” it added.
As of Saturday, six cases were undergoing treatment at hospitals in the state, with none in intensive care unit (ICU) and none requiring breathing assistance. All six cases were being treated at SGH.
Thus far, the virus has caused 17 deaths in the state since the first positive case was reported on March 13.
On persons-under-surveillance (PUS), SDMC said that 125 had been checked into hotels to undergo quarantine.
This brought the total number of PUS at 16 hotels statewide to 1,041 while 15,524 had completed their quarantine period.
