Malaysia's health chief warns against discrimination of migrant workers amid coronavirus outbreak at detention centres

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Coronavirus breaks out at migrant detention centres in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR - New clusters of coronavirus infections have been detected at three detention centres for undocumented migrants in Malaysia in the past few days as the country battles to rein in the virus outbreak.

Health ministry director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah said migrant workers should not be discriminated in terms of healthcare, while stressing immediate medical attention and decontamination procedures at the centres, which hold thousands of detainees. "As the virus ravages in these centres, we need to enhance the active case detection and isolate and treat those positive cases immediately. Quarantine those close contacts and decontaminate the respective centres.

Of that, 60 cases were reported among the 1,400 detainees at the Bukit Jalil centre, while 49 cases were detected at the Semenyih detention centre, which houses around 1,600 detainees.Dr Noor Hisham has previously said the source of infections at the centres had not been identified.

 

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by the way , some migrant workers in Singapore are resting in Cruise ship right now LOL .. who say we dont take care foreign workers ?

Oh dear .....

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