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PUTRAJAYA The government will hold discussions with the Ministry of Human Resources to request employers to provide a tag or identification to indicate that a foreign worker has undergone a Covid-19 swab test.
Chief Minister (Security Group) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob (pix) He said the label was to allow the public to identify foreign workers who had undergone a Covid-19 test swab.
“To date, anyone who has performed the Covid-19 swab test, the hospital or clinic will issue a letter saying they are negative or positive.
“If it is positive, it is immediate admission to the hospital. Those who test negative will receive a letter saying they are not infected, ”he told reporters after a meeting of the Special Ministerial Committee on the Movement Control Order (MCO) here today.
Ismail Sabri said that a letter issued after a person was found to be negative for Covid-19 could be shown to authorities at a roadblock or any inspection.
“But for personal identification, there are still none to date,” he said.
Meanwhile, Ismail Sabri said that several new groups that occurred during the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) were not due to employers’ failure to comply with government-imposed standard operating procedures (SOPs).
“As an example, what happened at a construction site in Setia Alam was not because they did not comply with the SOP. In reality, they obeyed the SOP when they took their construction workers to a swab test before allowing them to work.
“And when swab tests were done, some of them found Covid-19 positive and so on, and it didn’t happen when they were working.
“Then, the owner of the construction company complied with the SOP to verify his workers, so there were no non-compliance problems and the case of the chicken factory cluster in Pedas was not reopened during the CMCO, because it had been open since the first phase of the MCO for reasons related to food, “he said.
Therefore, he said, to cut the spread of Covid-19 infection, the government took a new approach by closing only Covid-19 positive localities and not the entire area.
“If in the past we closed the entire Setia Alam area, all the houses closed but now we take a different approach, we close the affected areas and treat those involved in the area, we focus on the infected people and the infected area,” he said. – Bernama
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