We told you so, say groups on Covid-19 spike at detention centres

Noel Achariam Noel Achariam Updated 3 years ago · Published on 28 May 2020 7:00AM · 1 Comments

Civil societies are taking the government to task for failing to heed their warnings on herding illegal migrants into detention centres, which are now the sites of new Covid-19 clusters. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Afif Abd Halim, May 28, 2020.

PUTRAJAYA should explain how it is going to deal with the increase in Covid-19 cases at Immigration detention centres after it was repeatedly warned to stop going after undocumented migrants during the movement-control order (MCO), civil society groups said.

They told The Malaysian Insight the current spike in Covid-19 infections at three detention centres – Bukit Jalil, Semenyih and Sepang – was an incident waiting to happen.

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  • Let's wait for all of this to be over and look at data and see who made the right / wrong decision. Look at all the possible unintended consequences as well.

    Posted 3 years ago by H. Mokhtar