MOH mulls Covid-19 screening at all detention centres, including jails, over fears of new outbreak in Malaysia
A general view of the Immigration Detention Centre at Bukit Jalil May 25, 2020. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
Labelling the detention centres as a high-risk area, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah warned that it was crucial for the ministry to look at other detention centres such as prisons due to the fear of an emerging outbreak. “So what we have to do is to screen everyone. Those positive we will isolate them in our hospital, those negative we will quarantine them for 14 days,” he said during his daily Covid-19 press briefing here.
To date, the Bukit Jalil immigration depot tops the list at 281 individuals testing positive for Covid-19 with 115 new cases reported today.
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