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Leave your kids at home, irked Miri disaster management chief tells shopping parents

After Covid-19 SOPs tightened, Senadin rep calls for ‘extreme caution’, says best not to go out unless absolutely necessary

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 14 May 2021 4:21PM

Leave your kids at home, irked Miri disaster management chief tells shopping parents
Datuk Lee Kim Shin (right) meeting members of the public during a Covid-19 screening drive in Miri city today. – Pic courtesy of Lee Kim Shin, May 14, 2021

by Stephen Then

MIRI – The sight of children playing and running around in shopping malls without face masks has irked head of the Miri Disaster Management Committee Datuk Lee Kim Shin.

“Parents must exercise extreme caution during this time when infections are still so high.

“There have been cases of parents bringing their families to crowded shopping malls and letting their children run around, often without even wearing face masks.

“During times like this, the best place for all is still the home.

“Do not bring your children out unless it is really necessary,” he said in a statement today.

Lee, who is Senadin state assemblyman, said Miri was once a green zone without serious levels of infections, but today it has become among the highest for Covid-19 cases nationwide.

He urged the people to cooperate with state authorities in curbing the surge in infections and fatalities.

Yesterday, the Miri City Council imposed a 50% limit on the number of shoppers allowed into shopping outlets in the city as part of the enhanced control measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 infections. – The Vibes, May 14, 2021

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