GEORGE TOWN: Employers should be given more time to carry out the mandatory Covid-19 screening of foreign workers, which was enforced on New Year’s Day.
State local government committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo urged the Federal Government to give employers more time because of the limited capacity of clinics and healthcare facilities in the state.
On Thursday, the Social Security Organisation (Socso) revealed that only 8.5% of those in targeted areas had been screened.
Socso also said it had purchased nearly a million test kits, which were sufficient to cover the foreign workers registered with the organisation in the six areas targeted.