{"id":85899,"date":"2020-08-03T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T02:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85899"},"modified":"2020-08-03T10:16:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T02:16:49","slug":"five-schools-linked-to-sivagangga-covid-19-cluster-in-northern-state-of-kedah-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85899","title":{"rendered":"Five schools linked to Sivagangga COVID-19 cluster in northern state of Kedah closed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/malaysia-kedah-sivagangga.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85905\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/malaysia-kedah-sivagangga.jpg 640w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/malaysia-kedah-sivagangga-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/malaysia-kedah-sivagangga-555x370.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>ALOR SETAR: Police monitoring situation around Napoh here, which was identified as a  Covid-19 positive area. Several schools and nurseries in the area under the Parliamentary constituency of Kubang Pasu were closed following the establishment of links to the Sivagangga restaurant cluster. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ALOR SETAR, Aug 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Five schools in the Kubang Pasu and Padang Terap districts in the northern state of Kedah, which&nbsp;have been linked to the Sivagangga cluster,&nbsp;have been closed from Sunday, August 2 till Aug 29 in a bid&nbsp;to curb the spread of COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state government said in a statement Sunday that the four schools in Kubang Pasu are&nbsp;Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Hosba, SMK Megat Dewa, Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Hosba and SK Megat Dewa; while the one in Padang Terap&nbsp;is SK Kubang Palas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;All these schools will be closed for 28 days, which includes the 14-day quarantine and 14-day surveillance periods,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was decided by the National Security Council (MKN) at a meeting with Menteri Besar&nbsp;Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor today in line with the implementation of the&nbsp;Targeted Enhancement Movement Control Order (TEMCO) in Mukim Ah, Mukim Hosba&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mukim Binjal (Kubang Pasu) as well as Kampung Ulu Padang Sanai (Padang Terap).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This involves controlling the public&#8217;s movement over&nbsp;a one-kilometre radius from the affected Restoran Nasi Kandar Salleh,&nbsp;Napoh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, all teachers living in TEMCO areas are not allowed to report for work while teachers staying outside the affected areas are not permitted to go to schools situated near TEMCO areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Teachers living and working outside the TEMCO&nbsp;areas but need to pass through the said areas can do so,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALOR SETAR, Aug 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Five schools in the Kubang Pasu and Padang Terap districts in the northern state of Kedah, which&nbsp;have been linked to the Sivagangga cluster,&nbsp;have been closed from Sunday, August 2 till Aug 29 in a bid&nbsp;to curb the spread of COVID-19 infection. The state government said in a statement Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":85905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}