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UM claims volunteers chose to help with China students, not made to perform fever scans

Sunday, 16 Feb 2020 09:29 PM MYTUniversiti Malaysia maintained that it fully abided protocol for centralised surveillance of the coronavirus disease. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa

Under these measures, affected students were restricted to the university’s 10th residential college for a period of 14 days in order to facilitate close monitoring. “However, when the university decided to implement the centralised surveillance procedure, they voluntarily offered to help on humanitarian grounds.

The university went on to commend the volunteers for their initiative and feedback on improving the procedure.

 

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