MIRI: A special task force, which started operations on Tuesday, aims to focus on contact tracing among students from domestic institutions of higher learning who returned to Miri in recent weeks.
In saying this today, minister in charge of the Disaster Management Committee here, Datuk Lee Kim Shin, said that all the returning students had been identified based on data collected upon their arrival.
“Those students are being called by the task force personnel from Ops Room for appointment to take samples. SMS Info-blast will be sent to their mobile phones as well,” Lee said.
He reminded all students who received the phone calls and SMS Info-blast to follow the instructions and appointments given by the Ops Room personnel.
Students from rural areas outside Miri District are being arranged to enter designated hotels.
“Swabs will be taken at the hotels and they will be discharged once the results are negative,” Lee explained.
For further enquiries, the public can call Ops Room at 085-322 229 from 8am to 5pm (Mondays to Fridays).
Meanwhile, 1,021 students who returned from Peninsular Malaysia, Labuan and Sabah had been quarantined and tested.
“None were positive,” Lee explained.
“Miri Division Disaster Management Committee would like to seek the cooperation from all students and parents in this exercise as a prevention strategy against Covid-19.”
