CORONAVIRUS | The Kuala Lumpur Fire and Rescue Department today has carried out an operation to disinfect (nyahcemar) 132 tahfiz students from the Sri Petaling mosque.
The mosque was used for a tabligh gathering last month where many of the participants later tested positive for Covid-19.
The operation, codenamed Human Assistance Disaster Relief, involved a team of firefighters led by the city firefighters chief Nordin Pauzi, the police, Health Ministry, National Disaster Management Agency (Nadma), and medical support services company Radicare.
According to the Operation Commander Khairul Azuwan Ibrahim in a statement, four busses ferried the students from the Sri Petaling Mosque to the Home Surveillance Centre at the Malaysian Social Institute.
The disinfection process was done by the firefighters' Hazardous Materials Unit (Hazmat).
After the process, the students were placed in quarantine for two weeks.
"They were being disinfected in stages and then placed under quarantine at the Home Surveillance Centre for 14 days for monitoring purposes as Patients Under Investigation (PUI)," the department spokesperson Muhammad Ridhwan told the media in a Whatsapp message.
The firefighters had also disinfected the busses used to transport the students.
On March 13, Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah estimated that some 16,000 people had attended the international tabligh event from Feb 27 to March 1, of which around 14,500 are believed to be Malaysians.
According to data from the Health Ministry, a total of 10,650 participants from 40 tabligh headquarters have been tracked down.
From the figure, 10,553 have been screened and 4,986 samples taken - 2,559 negative and 513 positive - as of midnight on March 19.
There were also 659 participants admitted to hospital while 6,627 others were placed under home surveillance.
The government has urged the remainders of about 4,000 tabligh participants to step forward.
However, the tabligh group committee member Abdullah Cheong claimed that only around 12,500 people attended its gathering and not 16,000 as widely reported. - Mkini
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