To date, a total of 1,328 workplace clusters have been detected, involving 147,040 Covid-19 cases.

Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said about 68% or 100,086 of those who tested positive for the virus were foreigners.

The remaining 46,954 cases or 32% were Malaysians.

He also said the highest number of cases detected at workplace clusters were linked to factories. Some 95,156 cases, he said, involved 639 clusters.

Noor Hisham added that a handful only adhered to SOPs after enforcement officers took action. “Such apathy will only see Covid-19 cases rise at the workplace,” he said in a statement.

He called on SOPs to be tightened at the workplace.

Earlier today, health minister Dr Adham Baba said a large number of new Covid-19 clusters recorded during Epidemiological Week 23 were related to workplaces.

Vaccine coordinating minister Khairy Jamaluddin also said earlier today that Phase 4 of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme was activated today in an effort to contain workplace clusters.