Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan
PETALING JAYA: Business industry players have called on the government not to resort to a full-scale lockdown to curb the rising Covid-19 cases but to look at targeted approaches such as tightening the SOP.
Malaysian Employers Federation executive director Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan, responding to talk of a potential lockdown, said a movement control order similar to the one in March last year would do more harm than good.
“The number of new infections is a real cause of concern among employers, employees and members of the public.
“There are right steps to handle the situation, but these should not include the MCO because of the negative impact of such a lockdown on the economy.
PETALING JAYA: With the Covid-19 screening being mandatory for all foreign workers, employers are urging the government to control the service fee imposed by clinics and hospitals for tests.
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The Malaysian Pahang state recorded a surge in Covid-19 cases after authorities detected a new cluster in a prison.
Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Tembok Mempaga cluster in the Bentong district recorded 282 cases, which made up 98 per cent of the total 288 new cases in the state.
The Tembok Mempaga cluster in Pahang started with a person in the prison who was diagnosed positive on Dec 22. To date, 504 individuals have been screened.
Overall, clusters involving lockups, immigration detention depots, and prisons account for 307 of total new cases.
Overall, the country on Tuesday reported 1,925 new coronavirus cases, about half of them from the Klang Valley with the Selangor state in the lead.
PETALING JAYA: Businesses are calling on the authorities to postpone the enforcement of the Covid-19 screening of foreign workers in six high-risk states, claiming that there are delays due to a shortage of test kits in panel clinics and hospitals.
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