Senior Minister (Defence) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob - Bernamapix
PETALING JAYA: The number of people arrested for flouting the Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) rose to a high of 680 yesterday, with the biggest offenders (146) being those who failed to physically distance.
Other offenders included those who still attempted to cross district and state borders (117), followed by night club activities (106), not donning face masks (86), failure to prepare equipment to record temperature (64), going out of home without valid reason (36), ferrying additional passengers (25), operating beyond stipulated hours (23) and others (77).
Senior Minister (Defence) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob in a statement also said 21 illegal immigrants were arrested while 10 vehicles were confiscated.
KOTA BHARU (Feb 7): The Federal Territories Ministry will make it compulsory for every employer to inform on the accommodation for the foreign workers it will be hiring in order to obtain the development order approval. Its minister, Tan Sri Annuar Musa said this was to ensure that these workers would not be living in over-crowded kongsi houses in line with the government’s efforts in curbing the spread of Covid-19 among foreign workers in the federal territories.
KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 27): The government would implement the Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) at the Transit Detention Centre (PTP) of the Marang Prison as well as the Dungun Correctional Centre and its staff quarters from tomorrow until Feb 10.
Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the Ministry of Health (MoH) today reported a sudden increase in the number of positive Covid-19 cases in both locations.
He said the implementation of EMCO at Marang Prison PTP would involve the block housing prison officers training centre, Zone 2 and Zone 3.
“As of Jan 26, MoH has carried out 1,262 tests with 98 testing positive for Covid-19,” he said in a statement.
PUTRAJAYA: Not wearing a face mask while out in crowded public areas tops the list of violations of standard operating procedures (SOP) among the public, which saw police arresting 228 individuals for committing this offence.
They were among 660 people arrested for breaching SOP on Thursday (Jan 21), where 39 were remanded while 621 individuals were slapped with compounds.
Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said that other violations of SOP violations include not registering customer details (121), no social distancing (96), interstate travel without permission (54) and premises operating beyond permitted hours (63).
The taskforce monitoring SOP compliance reported that its teams had carried out 56,935 checks nationwide on Thursday, the Defence Minister said.
They are Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Penang, Sabah and the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Labuan.
For other states, the enforcement will start after February next year.
Saravanan said the enforcement on Jan 1 onwards would “only focus on the six
high-risk states, involving some 800,000 foreign workers” as the directive had been announced and the programme started since Dec 1.
He said as of yesterday, a total of 68,460 foreign workers had been screened, involving 2,385 employers.
“On Jan 1, the enforcement will be on the remaining employers to start sending their foreign workers to be screened, ” he said.
To a question, Saravanan said employers in the other states would have until the end of February for all their foreign workers to be tested for Covid-19.