The Health Ministry is still looking for 5,084 attendees of a tabligh event late last month to test them for Covid-19.
Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the ministry is working closely with police to identify these individuals.
“They are around the country. We have their addresses in every state, and we will try to find them.
“We want to encourage them to come to clinics to get tested,” he said in his daily press conference in Putrajaya today.
“We have actually screened 17,584 members of the group and out of the samples taken 6,648 are negative; 1,207 are positive, 4,645 are still pending and we need to find the 5,084 who have not been tested yet,” said Dr Noor Hisham.
The gathering at Sri Petaling Mosque in Kuala Lumpur was held from February 27 to March 1.