DAP reps want action after over 400 Covid-19 cases, deaths at Tangkak factory

Two Johor assemblypersons have called for action to prevent more Covid-19 related deaths linked to a microelectronics factory based in the Tanjung Agas Industrial Zone, Muar, Johor.

Tangkak assemblyperson Ee Chin Li, Bentayan assemblyperson Ng Yak Howe and Johor DAP executive committee member Lim Eng Guan in a joint statement today said operations of STMicroelectronics (STM) manufacturing facility had led to 400 positive Covid-19 cases and 15 deaths from mid-June to date. 

They said the Health Ministry had on July 9 confirmed the "Persiaran Agas" workplace cluster, after a first round of screening, based...