EMCO at Kemta, staff quarters from tomorrow till Jan 12 - Ismail Sabri

KUALA LUMPUR: An Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) will be implemented at the Kamunting Correctional Centre (Kemta) in Taiping, Perak, as well as its staff quarters from tomorrow (Dec 30) until Jan 12, 2021.

Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the EMCO was aimed at controlling the existing cluster, and preventing the spread of COVID-19 to other prisoners, staff, family members and communities outside Kemta.

"As of Dec 24, 2020, the MOH (Ministry of Health Malaysia) has screened a total of 1,490 detainees, and of the total, 50 were found to be positive for COVID-19," he said in a statement here today.

Meanwhile, Ismail Sabri said 142 individuals were issued with compounds for violating the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) yesterday, while 16 immigrants were arrested and three land vehicles confiscated under the Ops Benteng operation.

He added that 93,728 Malaysians had returned from abroad between July 24 and Dec 28, and 540 of them had been sent to the hospital for treatment.

-- BERNAMA