ACTIVE CASE DETECTION
KUCHING: An Active Case Detection (ACD) operation was conducted at Kampung Tabuan Lot here yesterday – the second of such operation to be carried out in the state.
State Disaster Management Committee chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said the operation was implemented following the death of a 72 year-old man due to Covid-19 and detection of positive cases in the area.
He said the operation involved a total of 423 houses in the area with some 2,100 residents.
“There is one person under investigation (PUI) case there as well.
“We have yet to link the patient who is now warded at the Sarawak General Hospital to any cluster,” Uggah told reporters after visiting the Covid-19 screening centre set up at the Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Hall here.
Uggah said the operation was implemented due to concerns of undetected cases in the village.
“Our team will go house to house to investigate and the kampung folks will be advised to do their screening test at the hall,” he added.
Uggah said the ACD involving 171 doctors and other medical personnel, the police, Civil Defence Department, local council and others was upon the advice and guidance of the State Health Department.
He urged the kampung folk to give their fullest co-operation as it was done for their own benefit.
“To us the war against Covid-19 is still ongoing. All of us have to work very hard,” he said.
On the first active case detection operation done by the Sarawak Health Department through the Samarahan District Health Office in Uni Garden and Taman Desa Ilmu in Kota Samarahan, he said it had been very useful in providing early detection of infected individuals.
The ACD was carried out there following the detection of 20 positive cases and two deaths.
“The operation which began on April 28 to May 3 had enabled us to detect three positive cases. If we had not done this, those who are infected but are asymptomatic will be spreading the disease.
“This will certainly be a big problem to those affected, their families and the community at large,” he asserted.
The first operation had covered 5,300 homes and 15,583 people were screened while 885 others had come forward to provide blood samples.
