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Uggah speaking at today’s press conference.
KUCHING: The Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) has changed the procedures to return the Sarawakians after a new Covid-19 group known as the IPT Cluster was found yesterday in Sabah and Peninsular.
Its president, Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas, said SDMC today decided to take additional precautions by requiring samples be taken of returnees arriving from Peninsular, Sabah and Labuan once they landed in Sarawak.
“They will be examined and placed in the hotel until the test result of your sample is known. Only those whose sample is negative are allowed to return home and are required to wear a QR code bracelet while continuing their quarantine at home, ”he said today in a daily Covid-19 update.
He also said that another decision made by SDMC was to require public officials in Sarawak, Peninsular, Sabah and Labuan to undergo a polymerization chain reaction (PCR) test three days before returning to the state.
“They can only be allowed to return to Sarawak if the sample test result is negative,” he said.
Yesterday, the director general of Health, Datuk, Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, in revealing the IPT Cluster, said that this group comprised three positive cases at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah and two positive cases at the Universiti Perguruan Sultan Idris in Perak.
He was also quoted as saying that the source of infection could be from infected staff who were free to move compared to quarantined students in their shelters.
Regulating the number of students who have already returned to Sarawak, Uggah said that SDMC has so far coordinated the return of 4,931 students returning from Peninsular, Sabah and Labuan.
He also said that SDMC at the same time also coordinated the return of 1,451 students in institutions within Sarawak to their respective home cities within the state.
On another matter, he said the Sarawak government has generally given room for maneuver for foreign workers in the state to return to their respective countries during this Covid-19 pandemic.
“However, we do not guarantee that they can return to Sarawak,” he said.
He also said that SDMC is still negotiating with the State Department of Health and the Social Security Organization (Socso) about the appropriate measures to carry out the detection of Covid-19 for all workers, whether local or foreign in the state.
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