Aman Jaya: Administrative EMCO ends in Kenanga, Mawar Zones but extended in Melur

The administrative Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) imposed in two of the three zones in Aman Jaya, Kedah, namely Kenanga and Mawar, will end at the stroke of midnight today.

Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the EMCO for the Melur zone, however, has been extended to Sept 27.

The decision to end the EMCO was reached after a second screening exercise done on Sept 9 showed no more COVID-19 positive cases in Kenanga, and just one case in Mawar, who has since been placed in a quarantine centre.

“The EMCO had to be extended in the Melur zone after 12 positive cases were detected in the second screening,” he said in a statement today.

The administrative EMCO in Melur involves 609 households with an estimated population of 2,529 people, Ismail Sabri said, and urged those affected by the order to keep complying with directives of the Health Ministry and the police.

The two-week administrative EMCO had first been enforced in the three zones in Aman Jaya on Aug 28.

-- BERNAMA