Treat all our guests fairly: Sin Chew Daily

KUALA LUMPUR - On Wednesday noon, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced in a press conference at the prime minister’s office after chairing the weekly cabinet meeting that all travellers arriving in the country would be subjected to the same anti-virus measures, including those arriving from China.

At the same time, the government has planned to tighten SOPs for all visitors entering the country, but will not adopt a different set of criteria for any specific country. We believe the health ministry will not reverse its earlier proposals because temperature screening and taking sewage water samples can be done very easily, while it is absolutely necessary to do RTK-Ag tests on individuals who have come into contact with ILI and SARI patients recently.

According to the CDC, the percentage of XBB.1.5 infections has jumped from 10 to 40 per cent since mid-December. In the UK, for instance, the biggest concern is the introduction of XBB.1.5 variant into the country from the US, not so much from the virus strains currently prevailing in China. The entry of Chinese travellers has become such a controversy because of the abrupt reopening from the seemingly uncompromising zero tolerance policy barely a month ago. The drastic policy reversal has put many in jitters.

As such, we should laud the PM’s approach in according equivalent treatment to all arriving visitors, including those from China, so long as they can prove to be not carrying the virus and conform to our SOPs.

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