Covid-19 outbreak in immigration detention depots under control — Health D-G

KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): Health director-general (D-G) Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today the Covid-19 outbreak in immigration detention depots remains under control.

He said the Ministry of Health had detected 775 cases up until noon today in four depots — Bukit Jalil (647 cases), Semenyih (66), Sepang (60) and Putrajaya (two).

"So far, infections in the immigration detention centres are under control," he told a Covid-19 media briefing. 

Dr Noor Hisham said undocumented migrants who tested positive for Covid-19 are isolated and quarantined for 14 days, and made to undergo second and third tests.

"Through the repeat tests, the ministry detected more Covid-19 cases and the patients were transferred to hospitals for treatment," he said.

He said 1,362 undocumented migrants have been treated so far at the temporary Covid-19 hospital at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park in Serdang, with only 11 patients still remaining there.

The 11 comprise four Indonesians, three Myanmar nationals, two Pakistanis, a Sri Lankan and a Filipino.

Noor Hisham stressed that the undocumented migrants will not infect others as they are not staying among the community.

Covid-19 clusters at the immigration depots in Semenyih, Sepang and Putrajaya did not record any new cases today, he said.

"However, our concern is the Bukit Jalil depot because the [Covid-19] outbreak [among undocumented migrants] started from Bukit Jalil," he said.

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