1 Utama Clarifies That They Only Recorded 22 Positive Cases, Not 63 As Stated In JBPD Report

In an earlier report by the Petaling District Disaster Management Committee (JBPD) who said that the shopping centre has recorded 63 positive Covid-19 cases with a majority of the cases from security personnel at 44 cases.

In an update, 1 Utama released a statement one hour ago to refute the statement released by JBPD. They clarified that 1 Utama does NOT have 63 Covid-19 cases.

“It is misleading to imply that all cases stated in their report originated from 1 Utama as no index case has been identified as coming from 1 Utama.”

They added that the management already expected multiple Covid-19 cases when they began their mass testing as it’s impossible to have zero cases tested from a large pool of thousands especially at a time when we’re going through a third wave of the pandemic.

From the 6,000 people they tested, they concluded yesterday (14 October), they identified 20 tenant staff and 1 mall management staff as Covid-19 positive. These 21 persons have been swiftly quarantined by KKM to contain the spread and further minimize potential exposure.

The statement also rectified that the 44 positive Covid-19 of security guards mentioned in the JBPD’s report did NOT originate from 1 Utama and were not part of the 6,000 mass testings that they conducted. The guards were outsourced contract guards from a third-party service provider where Covid-19 was contracted through a dormitory and not within their premises.

“When we were initially informed by KKM of 1 guard being positive through their tracing we removed all guards under his company for re-testing and to only re-deploy after cleared although all guards were all tested when they were first assigned.”

So, to clarify, 1 Utama has only 22 positive Covid-19 cases and not 63 like initially mentioned.

Also read: JBPD: 1 Utama Records 63 Positive Cases After Mass Testing Including 3 Shoppers