KUALA LUMPUR – A large-scale disinfection exercise will be carried out for two days beginning today at 284 locations nationwide following a sharp increase in new COVID-19 cases over the past few days.
Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin said the operation conducted by the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) would focus on Selangor which has continued to record the highest number of new daily cases.
“More aggressive action must be taken and the sites to be covered include housing areas, markets and so forth. It is hoped that this effort will help reduce the spread of Covid-19 in the state,” she told reporters after witnessing a sanitisation exercise at a locality categorised as a red zone, here, today.
Elaborating, Zuraida said since March last year up to today, 25,252 sanitation operations were implemented at 156 zones, of which 120 were red zones, orange zones (14), yellow zones (15) and seven green zones, which were identified by District Health Offices according to the guidelines by the Health Ministry.
In another development, Zuraida said as of yesterday, a total of 2,702 JBPM personnel have been screened for Covid-19, with 16 officers testing positive, 96 were categorised as persons under investigation, 89 were persons under surveillance (PUS) and an officer had died after contracting the virus. – Bernama, May 29, 2021
