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KUALA LUMPUR: Failure to practice physical distancing remains one of the most common crimes committed in violation of the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO), said Chief Minister (Security Group) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob (pix).
He said that according to a police report, the lead agency of the Enforcement Operations Task Force, 26 people were arrested yesterday for committing the crime.
Other offenses included failing to provide customer registration equipment (24 people), not wearing face masks (20), defying quarantine orders (one), and facilities operating beyond the allowed hours (one).
“Of the total, 70 people were aggravated, one was placed in preventive detention and another was offered bail,” he said today in a statement.
Meanwhile, he said 14 arrests were made in Op Benteng operations involving 25 immigrants and a smuggler.
In mandatory quarantine from July 24 to yesterday, Ismail Sabri said that a total of 24,961 people have returned home from 32 countries and were placed in 67 hotels, four public training institutes, as well as higher education institutions across the country.
Of the total, he said, some 9,887 people are in mandatory quarantine, 66 were sent to hospitals for treatment and 15,008 were discharged.
Since March 30, a total of 9,874 public sanitation operations have been carried out in 134 areas involving 2,708 business centers, 5,706 government buildings, 1,596 housing areas including Popular Housing Projects, 2,606 public places and 354 supermarkets.-Named
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