Local time on the 20th, Malaysia’s Gilantan State Health Bureau Director Reni Huxin in an interview with local media, said that from April 3 to 16, a total of 464 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Gilantan related to the “school outbreak.”
Of these, 256 were secondary school students, 111 were pupils aged 7 to 12, 8 were children under 7 years of age and 86 were teachers and school workers over the age of 19.
Reni Huxin said that the results of the state health bureau investigation show that the school did not strictly abide by the standard operating procedures for pandemic prevention is the main reason for the rapid spread of Coronavirus pandemic in the school, the school’s student dormitory is the most vulnerable to spread the spread of the virus.
It is also learned that the “school pandemic” worsened, Malaysia’s Gilantan State Education Bureau announced at midnight on April 17, temporarily closed the state’s seven counties 472 schools and kindergartens for 14 days.