KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 8): Bursa Malaysia Bhd announced today two of its staff members have tested positive for Covid-19 and that the Ministry of Health has been contacted on the matter.

The affected Bursa staff members are currently in isolation under home quarantine, bourse operator and regulator Bursa said in a statement today.

"Bursa Malaysia would like to assure that the stock exchange is operating as normal. There is no disruption to our critical and support functions of the exchange, and our business continuity management plan is in place to ensure the smooth functioning of our operations in the event of such incidents.

"We will continue to monitor the developments closely and provide updates as new information becomes available," Bursa said.

Bursa said the exchange operator has carried out contact tracing and established the movements of the infected staff members and as an immediate response, Bursa staff who have had close contact with the affected staff members will be sent for testing and work from home until their test results come back negative.

As a further precaution, staff who have had indirect contact will also be working from home, according to Bursa.

"Bursa Malaysia will provide the necessary support should they choose to be voluntarily tested.

"To protect the health and well-being of our employees, deep cleansing and sanitisation work is currently being carried out. Bursa Malaysia places the utmost priority on the health and well-being of our employees.

"We will continue to exercise the necessary precautionary measures that have been in practice since the start of the pandemic," Bursa said.

At afternoon break today, Bursa's share price settled up five sen or 0.61% at RM8.20, valuing the group at about RM6.63 billion. 

Some 1.41 million shares were traded.