The Health Ministry has no plans to order all boarding schools to close despite the rising number of Covid-19 clusters reported at such schools.

At a press conference today, its minister Khairy Jamaluddin said there are 52 education clusters since schools reopened this year. There were 15 clusters reported during the first week of schooling starting Jan 9 or 10, rising to 33 new clusters on the second week.

Thirty (57.7 percent) of the clusters have...