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| Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Seremban 2 here will be closed from April 23 until 29 |
BERNAMA
23/4/2021
SEREMBAN, April 23 -- Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Seremban 2 here will be closed from April 23 until 29 after 17 individuals were confirmed to be COVID-19 positive.
State Investment, Industrialisation, Entrepreneurship, Education and Human Capital Committee chairman Datuk Dr Mohamad Rafie Ab Malek said the 17 were confirmed positive Thursday after undergoing screening by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on April 20.
"Following that, the District Health Office asked the District Education Office to close the school,” he said in a statement today.
Meanwhile, he said 179 individuals at Sekolah Menengah Agama Persekutuan Labu, near here, have been quarantined at the Institute Aminuddin Baki quarantine centre and the Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT) in Nilai, near here, after three of its staff were confirmed to be COVID-19 positive.
However, he said the situation there was under control and the school was not closed.
