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LABUAN, October 10 – Two men and two women were slapped with a compound of RM1,000 each for not wearing masks in public places on the duty-free island.
They were found to have violated Covid-19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and the guidelines of the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Act of 1988 (Act 342).
Labuan Police Chief Superintendent Muhammad Farid Ahmad said the first offender was a 38-year-old man who was found smoking outside a restaurant in the city center at 11:31 a.m. on October 9, and that he did not he had a mask with him.
“The second man, 27, committed the same crime in a parking lot of the Urban Transformation Center (UTC) Building at 2.45 pm on the same day,” he said today.
Muhamad Farid said that the two women, aged 17 and 20, who violated the SOP were pool and pool center assistants.
“Knowing that the facilities were always packed, they still chose not to wear masks,” he said. – Bernama
