Officials trying to work out how segregated detainees caught Covid-19


Ragananthini Vethasalam

Director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah says officials are still trying to work out how pre-MCO detainees at Bukit Jalil Immigration Detention Centre have been infected with Covid-19 when they are segregated from recent arrivals. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, May 26, 2020.

UNDOCUMENTED migrants at Bukit Jalil Immigration Detention Centre, who were detained before the movement control order (MCO) began in March, could have been infected with Covid-19 from recent detainees brought in during the MCO, or from staff, director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.

The Ministry of Health is still investigating how the coronavirus was transferred to detainees brought in before March 18, when the MCO was enforced.


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