The Covid19 Preparedness and Action Center (PKTC-19) together with the Occupational Safety and Health Center (PKKP) and Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) Borneo Marine Research Institute (IPMB) conducted an aedes mosquito breeding places eradication training programme at IPMB near here.

Also partaking in the programme was the Health Office here.

The event was attended by representatives of residential fellows, students and UMS campus cleaning contractors.

UMS PKKP director Professor Dr Khamisah Awang Lukman said that the programme is to train USM staff to identify the breeding grounds for aedes mosquitoes in public areas.

"This programme is also to train UMS staff on ways to correctly destroy the breeding ground," she said.

Khamisah added that the programme was an initiative of PKTC-19 and PKKP to help the Kota Kinabalu Health Office to control the risk of dengue infection at UMS campus.