EMCO: 22 registered residents of Flat Anjung Tawas Damai found in other places

IPOH: Twenty-two of the 23 foreign workers thought to have gone missing from the Flat Anjung Tawas Damai after it was placed under the Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) were found in other locations yesterday.

Ipoh district police chief ACP A. Asmadi Abdul Aziz said the workers of the Imperial Garments factory had moved to other addresses before the 14-day EMCO came into force yesterday.

"They were actually staying in other places and the addresses registered in the factory's human resource division were not updated. We are now looking for another male Bangladeshi worker," he said in a statement today.

He said the 22 workers were sent to the Low-Risk COVID-19 Quarantine and Treatment Centre (PKRC) here and would be transferred to the PKRC at The Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS) in Selangor today.

Yesterday, A. Asmadi said 439 people were staying at the five-storey flat used as a hostel for workers, and 377 of them including 43 locals had tested positive for COVID-19.

Twenty-three could not be located when the EMCO came into force yesterday. The garments factory has been closed for the past one month because of the spread of COVID-19.

-- BERNAMA