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PETALING JAYA: The conditional movement control order (CMCO) for Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Sabah will run until December 6, Chief Security Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said today.
The CMCO for the Klang Valley started on October 14 and was scheduled to end on October 27, but was extended until November 9 before today’s extension.
The latest extension is in line with the CMCO placed in six other peninsular Malaysian states announced today.
There have been a growing number of cases in Selangor over the past month, with yesterday’s tally of 164 new cases leaving the state with 5,754 cases, second only to Sabah (which has a total of 19,282 cases).
Kuala Lumpur registered 18 new cases yesterday and has a total of 3,136 cases, third behind Selangor. Putrajaya, meanwhile, detected nine new cases yesterday. It has a total of 171 cases.
Sabah recorded 1,199 new cases yesterday, its highest level yet.
Ismail said the high number of cases in Sabah was raised during today’s National Security Council meeting, and Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin called for a technical meeting to adjust the SOPs that should be implemented in the state.
“As we know, there is a difference between CMCO and Enhanced Motion Control Order (MCO). So we have to look at the SOPs in detail, ”Ismail said when asked if stricter restrictions would be placed on the state.
He also said that the EMCO in two towns in Tawau, Taman Semarak and PPR Balung, will end tomorrow as scheduled due to the reduction in the number of cases.
Meanwhile, the police yesterday arrested 407 people for violating the order to control the recovery movement in progress (RMCO).
Ismail said 403 people received compound fines, while four were arrested.
The crimes included failure to wear face masks, activities that made physical distancing difficult, and failure to provide materials for the contact tracing record.
Regarding mandatory home quarantine, Ismail said that 62,297 people who arrived through KLIA were screened for Covid-19 from July 24 to November 6 and were quarantined.
Some 384 tested positive and were sent to hospital for treatment, while 52,400 were allowed to return home.
Some 9,513 people are in mandatory quarantine.
