PETALING JAYA: The enhanced movement control order (EMCO) at the Bentong and Taiping prisons and their respective staff quarters has been extended until Feb 22.
Meanwhile, the EMCO at the transit block of the Jelebu prison in Negeri Sembilan will be lifted today as scheduled after all 49 positive cases housed there have recovered from Covid-19 and were discharged, with 69 inmates also ending their home surveillance order.
In a statement today, senior minister for security Ismail Sabri Yaakob said that the EMCO at the Bentong and Taiping prisons and their respective staff quarters was initially set to end tomorrow but had to be extended for two weeks due to an increase in Covid-19 cases in the area.
Ismail said that 2,085 Covid-19 tests had been carried out on inmates, staff and close contacts linked to the Bentong prison and its staff quarters, with 767 positive cases detected as a result.
A spike in cases at the prison has also seen 13 people test positive on Friday alone.
The Taiping prison and staff quarters, meanwhile, has seen 544 Covid-19 tests carried out in total, with 112 positive cases involving 90 inmates, 21 prison staff and one family member.
The health ministry is still awaiting results of 40 tests.
Meanwhile, Ismail said 789 people were arrested by police yesterday over movement control order-related offences. He said 764 of them were fined, 21 remanded and four granted bail.
Most of the offences, he said, were for failing to wear face masks (involving 191 people).
Among the other offences were travelling across districts or states without permission (160), participating in activities which made physical distancing difficult (110) and failing to provide materials for contact tracing or registration (128).
Meanwhile, a total of 2,942 compliance task force teams were deployed to conduct checks on 20,099 supermarkets, restaurants, hawker stalls, factories, banks, government offices, as well as land, water and air transport terminals.
The authorities also detained 20 undocumented migrants as part of the ongoing Op Benteng campaign. They also confiscated four vehicles.
Ismail also said 117,892 people who arrived through KLIA were screened for Covid-19 from July 24, 2020, to Feb 6 this year and were placed under quarantine.
Some 489 tested positive and were sent to hospital for treatment, while 110,148 have been allowed to return home.
Another 7,255 people are undergoing mandatory quarantine. - FMT
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