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PETALING JAYA: The government has consolidated all its enforcement agencies to monitor illegal routes into the country, says Chief Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
The Defense Minister, in his daily briefing on updates to the Conditional Movement Control Order (MCO) on Monday (May 11), said for the first time that the government had created a special task force composed of law enforcement agencies application run by the armed forces to monitor porous borders at sea and on land.
“We have closed our borders to foreigners and having a family here is no excuse for them to enter the country. As for the illegal routes, a special group led by the armed forces comprising uniformed enforcement agencies is monitoring these routes used by migrants
“I have not made this public, but we have already arrested those (tekong) traffickers, who have tried to bring in illegals using such routes,” Ismail Sabri said.
He also said that migrant workers who found themselves infected with Covid-19 were not due to failure to follow standard operating procedures (SOPs) in the MCO phases.
“They followed standard operating procedures, but they contracted the virus from a stranger who was infected and passed it on, or one of them who came out and then contracted it, and came back and infected the others.
“For example, in the case of the group of foreign workers in Rembau, an outside employee visited them, probably for salary reasons, and infected them.
“As for the construction workers in Setia Alam, they were found to be positive, as their employer had led them to undergo swab testing as required by the SOPs before they can continue to work,” Ismail Sabri said. .
On Saturday (May 9), 53 foreign workers tested positive for Covid-19 at a factory in Pedas, Rembau. Seven more in the same group were Malaysians.
Setia Alam’s group had 12 migrant workers who tested positive at a construction site.
Ismail Sabri added that he would propose that migrant workers have identification tags to show that they have been screened and are free of Covid-19.
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