KAPAR – All stakeholders must be prepared to face the possibility of a fourth or fifth Covid-19 wave, said Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari.
He said this followed the announcement that 19 schools in Selangor were ordered closed from yesterday following the emergence of new Covid-19 clusters in the state.
“We must be ready and alert to face a fourth or fifth wave and at the same time we are also fighting the pandemic with vaccines and seek to speed up the inoculation process,” he said.
While the state is currently facing a third wave, while a fourth wave is not an impossibility, the Selangor government will try to check by conducting screenings and monitoring hotspots, he added.
“We have conducted screenings at the 19 schools which were closed and monitored the movements of their students as there may be positive cases.
“With the screenings, we will be able to detect and isolate those who are positive,” he told reporters during a Kita Selangor Ramadan Tour Programme in the Klang district.
He said the Selangor Education Department must arrange the learning schedules for the students from the 19 schools which were closed so that they would not be marginalised.
“We must be prepared. The hybrid education (remote and physical classes) is one and I believe schools must be ready for any possibility,” he said. – Bernama, April 20, 2021
