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KUALA LUMPUR: The government plans to implement stricter standard operating procedures (SOPs) for foreign workers, as well as extend the hyssop test requirement to those in the industrial sector, in an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country.
Chief Minister (Security Group) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob (pix) He said that currently, the government is awaiting a proposal in this regard from the Ministry of Human Resources.
“We are conducting a detailed study … to date, there are about 1.7 million foreign workers in Malaysia and with such a large number we are considering the capacity of the laboratories to produce the results and who should bear the costs. . if we were to run the swab tests on them.
“I was informed that more than a million foreign workers contribute to the Social Security Organization (Socso),” he told a press conference on the development of the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) here today.
Yesterday, Health Director General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah was reported to have said that the group that recorded the highest number of cases was the Damanlela Construction Site group in Kuala Lumpur, with 460 cases. -Called
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