Employee positive, federal tourism ministry HQ shuttered
Published on: Thursday, November 26, 2020
By: Bernama
Kuala Lumpur: All officers and staff at the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC) headquarters here have been instructed to undergo self-quarantine and work from home from today after detection of a COVID-19 case.
An officer with Tourism Malaysia, an agency of MOTAC, attached to the MOTAC headquarters was found to be COVID-19 positive, MOTAC said in a statement today.
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“The MOTAC building in Putrajaya was sanitised by officers from the Ministry of Health yesterday evening as a measure to stem any spread of the disease,” it said.
MOTAC also said that contact tracing found that Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri had no direct contact with the infected officer and that this was verified by the Ministry of Health.
It said Nancy took a COVID-19 swab test at 5.15 pm yesterday and the result was negative.
As a precautionary measure, Nancy is scheduled to have undergone another swab test this morning, the statement said.
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Meanwhile, an aide to Nancy confirmed that the minister was at the ministry office at the Sultan Abdul Samad Building in Kuala Lumpur.
“During the Parliament session, YB Minister operates from the office in Kuala Lumpur. She had no contact with the infected officer and this has been verified (through contact tracing) by the Ministry of Health,” she said.
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