81 who returned from Italy allowed to go home after quarantine

NILAI: A total of 81 people comprising Malaysians and their families, as well as six non-Malaysians, who arrived from Italy on March 26 were allowed to go home today after undergoing 14 days of quarantine at the Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT) in Bandar Enstek here.

Seventy-five Malaysians and six Italians were allowed to leave at 8 am. Some were picked up by family members while others left in vehicles provided by the management of the quarantine centre.

Of these, 39 were men and 42 were women.

Also allowed to leave were five health ministry staff, 22 AirAsia crew, one foreign ministry official and another from the National Disaster Management Agency (Nadma).

According to a Nadma spokesman, eight people who left in the centre’s vehicles were sent to KLIA and klia2 while the rest were picked up by family members who had been given movement permits.

The 81 people were repatriated from Italy through the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) mission on a special AirAsia aircraft which arrived at KLIA at 10.06am on March 26 following the outbreak of Covid-19 there.

This was the fourth successful repatriation mission after the ones which brought back 133 and 66 Malaysians stranded in Wuhan, China, on Feb 4 and 26, and the HADR mission from Tehran, Iran, with 55 people on March 22.

There are still 30 Malaysians at the AKEPT quarantine centre, comprising 15 who arrived from Indonesia, 14 from Spain and one from the UK. They will end their quarantine on April 17. - FMT