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Senior minister: Students who can’t afford hotels will be sent to public training institutes for quarantine

Ismail Sabri said students about to return to Malaysia will have to register with the Foreign Ministry, including details of their families’ economic backgrounds, to be considered for an exemption from the lodging payments. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin

In his press briefing in Parliament, Ismail Sabri was responding to media reports of a group of Malaysian students from Yemen, who were reportedly forced to wait in the lobby of the hotel they were assigned for their 14-day mandatory quarantine until they paid a deposit for their stay there. “I was made to understand that maybe yesterday, they were forced to wait, because some hotels require a deposit, for example.

 

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