KUALA LUMPUR – Seven localities in Sabah and one each in Negri Sembilan and Pahang will be placed under the enhanced movement control order (EMCO) from Monday to June 27, said Senior Minister (Security) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
He said the localities in Sabah are Kg Indah in Nabawan; Kg Manggis (Kuala Penyu); Taman Kinabutan Ria and Simpang Inderasabah (Tawau); and Kg Baru (SFI) (Sipitang); as well as Kg Tawadakan and Kg Kota Bungan in Kota Belud.
The EMCO will also be enforced in Kg Lakai near Jelebu, Negri Sembilan and the Kg Raja area in Cameron Highlands, Pahang, involving Sg Ikan, Blue Valley, Taman Matahari Cerah, Taman Desa Corina and Kg Baru Kg Raja.
“This measure is implemented to break the chain of infection by preventing the movement of individuals into the areas, as well as to prevent the spread of the pandemic to other locations,” he said in a statement today.
Meanwhile, Ismail Sabri said that the EMCO in Kg Baru Melayu, Bentong, and Felda Jengka 24 in Jerantut, Pahang, had been lifted today as scheduled.
The EMCO in Felda Sahabat 40 (Kg Kembara Sakti), Tungku, near Lahad Datu and Kg Padawan, Papar, in Sabah, as well as three housing areas in the Juasseh sub-district near Kuala Pilah, Negri Sembilan, will be lifted tomorrow as scheduled.
The EMCO at Ladang Chin Teck near Rompin, Pahang, will also end tomorrow, earlier than the scheduled June 18, after the Health Ministry confirmed that the cluster there is under control, with a reduction in cases and all positive cases having received treatment.
He also said that 887 individuals have been arrested for violating the standard operating procedures of the MCO yesterday, with 849 of them compounded and 38 remanded. – Bernama, June 12, 2021
