CORONAVIRUS | Senior Minister Ismail Sabri today lauded the government’s decision to impose mandatory quarantine on Malaysians returning from abroad after 17 positive cases were detected among them.
He said a new cluster was potentially avoided as a result as these 17 citizens were prevented from going home and exposing family members to the virus.
Prior to the second phase of the movement control order (MCO), which began on April 1, citizens returning from abroad were allowed to self-quarantine at home.
However, the National Security Council (NSC) later made it mandatory for all those arriving into the country to be quarantined in government-sanctioned centres.
“We believe through the MCO, we can break the Covid-19 chain. Another thing I believe was the right action was to introduce mandatory quarantine for those returning from overseas.
“We know many people were unhappy with this, yet the information we received (from the Health Ministry) showed there were 17 positive cases from among them.
“Imagine if we had let them go home... their families would have been exposed and if these family members went out to the market, surely a new cluster would have started. We were able to contain this,” Ismail said during a press conference at Putrajaya this afternoon.
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