KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians who are in Singapore but want to return home during the circuit breaker measures period should remain in Singapore for another two weeks, said Health Ministry director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He added that those who want to return to Malaysia will need to be screened at the checkpoints. They would also be subject to quarantine.Malaysian Senior Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob had said on Monday that Malaysians working in Singapore can only return if they have been certified free of the COVID-19 infection by Singaporean health authorities.
“Our instruction is that they can’t return unless they get approval that they are free from COVID-19 from the Singapore government,” he said at a press conference on Monday afternoon.
Malaysia not for Malaysian
Other ASEAN foreign workers have not given SG this expensive headache! Time to re-evaluate our future manpower strategy?
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