S'gor aims to half workplace-linked Covid-19 cases with new initiative

COVID-19 | Selangor is targeting a 50 percent reduction in the rate of Covid-19 infection in the workplace, especially in industrial and manufacturing areas if the prevention of outbreak at ignition site programme is implemented throughout the state.

Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari said the implementation of the programme is considered necessary because 80 percent of cases in Selangor are from workplaces.

"Now the epicentre of infection in Selangor is from the industrial area, which is about 70 to 80 percent. So, if the factories can mainly follow this programme, I am confident...