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PUTRAJAYA: There is no need to re-implement the Movement Control Order (MCO) despite the increase in positive Covid-19 cases in the country, Chief Minister (Security Group) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said.
He said this was because most of the cases involved prisoners in Kedah and Sabah, who can be considered isolated.
“No… we are not declaring MCO because in Kedah, for example, although 129 cases were registered, 128 of them were from the Tembok Cluster that involved prisoners there.
“While in Sabah, 35 cases were from the Benteng group involving a prison … although the remaining 78 cases are quite high, we have carried out control measures,” he told a press conference after attending the special meeting. of the National Security Council on Covid -19 chaired by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin here today.
Ismail Sabri said that Covid-19 cases in other parts of the country were still low, except in Selangor with 31 cases, but it has not reached the level of the red zone.
“There were only one or two cases in other states, so this is not a matter of concern.
“If we impose a nationwide blockade for just one or two cases, we will end up enforcing the MCO forever …” he said.
Ismail Sabri said that if necessary, the government would implement an improved movement control order in areas or localities categorized as a Covid-19 red zone.
As such, he said no interstate or interdistrict travel restrictions would be imposed for the time being.
“I urge people not to panic but not to take it (the current Covid-19 situation) lightly and to be complacent … always practice a high level of self-control as long as we have not found the vaccine,” He said.
On claims that politicians who returned from Sabah had caused the increase in Covid-19 cases in the country, Ismail Sabri said that of the more than 13,000 evaluations conducted on returnees from the state, about 130 or just one percent had tested positive. virus.
He said that not all were politicians as there were also tourists and those who traveled to Sabah for work reasons.
Meanwhile, Ismail Sabri said the government did not impose the mandatory 14-day quarantine on returnees from Sabah, as the state is still within the country and classified as interstate travel.
He said mandatory quarantine is only imposed on those returning from abroad because it is difficult for authorities to track the places they have visited, as well as their close contacts.
On the actions of certain sectors that published the photos and the names of the people who tested positive for Covid-19 on social networks, Ismail Sabri said that it is a crime according to the Personal Data Protection Law.
“We have never disclosed their names as it is a privacy violation,” he added. – Called
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