Keeping a close watch: An army personnel standing guard as residents from the apartment blocks queue to undergo Covid-19 screening in Taman Nagasari, Bukit Mertajam. LIM BENG TATT/The Star
BUKIT MERTAJAM: One in every 10 residents has tested positive for Covid-19 so far in Taman Nagasari, which is under the enhanced movement control order.
Out of 2,722 residents there, 273 have so far tested positive as at 10.45am yesterday.
Over 90% of the population in this neighbourhood are foreigners, working in the nearby factories.
Central Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Shafee Samad said two Covid-19 deaths had been recorded there so far, a 46-year-old local and a 35-year-old Filipino.
Sunday, 04 Jul 2021 07:12 AM MYT
Residents, business owners and workers who fled Taman Nagasari have been told to return home immediately. Bernama pic
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BUKIT MERTAJAM, July 4 Residents, business owners and workers who fled Taman Nagasari, here, which is placed under the enhanced movement control order (EMCO) starting midnight July 4, have been told to return home immediately.
Seberang Perai City Council (MBSP) mayor Datuk Rozali Mohamud said they were believed to have fled the area after the announcement of the EMCO which will be enforced until July 17.
“Fleeing the location to stay elsewhere, especially when the authorities are actively preparing to implement EMCO is an irresponsible act.
COMMENT | PM should get his priorities right with vaccine queue
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“Is the prime minister saying that their lives are less important than politicians who get to jump the vaccination queue?”
- Bukit Tengah assemblyperson Gooi Hsiao Leung
COMMENT | Of course, politicians are going to jump the queue and get vaccinated while the rest of us schmucks are going to have to be at the mercy of a bureaucracy which is attempting to navigate this pandemic without any transparency and accountability.
Of course, politicians who engineered a coup think their lives are more important than everyone else s, especially since the system is predicated on privileging their lives, be it in the way they flaunt SOPs or the way how their crimes are handled by the justice system.
Court to rule on Rosmah s case today, and other news you may have missed
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KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed, in brief.
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1. Rosmah Mansor will find out today whether the High Court in Kuala Lumpur would let her go free from graft charges, or order her to enter her defence. Her spouse, former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, will take some time off from his own corruption trial to show support.
Are politicians lives more important than others, asks PKR rep on vaccination plan
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A PKR lawmaker did not mince words in criticising the plan to prioritise lawmakers for the Covid-19 vaccine.
Apart from describing Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin s justification as “utter nonsense”, Gooi Hsiao Leung (
above) also denounced the move as “unethical, indecent and downright wrong”.
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