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Needy families get food aid

KUCHING: Habitat for Indigenous and Urban Programme (Hidup) president George Young Si Ricord Jr and his team delivered food baskets to a group of six families in Kampung Quop and Kampung Siderud today. These families consist of daily-paid earners and construction workers with school-going children under house quarantine for the next 14 days. Most of […]

1,244 returned yesterday, before compulsory quarantine started

KUALA LUMPUR: All except one of the 1,244 Malaysians who came back from overseas yesterday (July 23) were sent home for 14-day quarantine, the last batch allowed to do self-isolation before compulsory quarantine at government-designated centres began yesterday, said Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.       He said the Malaysians, who returned via […]

Quarantined man fined RM1,000 for eating out

LUMUT: A 51-year-old man was slapped with a RM1,000 compound for violating the home quarantine order by eating out at a restaurant in Kampung Jering, Ayer Tawar here, yesterday. Manjung district police chief ACP Nor Omar Sappi said the man was placed under the 14-day mandatory quarantine upon his return from Singapore. “A check on […]

Fatimah speaks from her self-home quarantine

BY COLINNA RADANG Our journalist recently had the opportunity to interview Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah to share her thoughts on the problems and solutions in dealing with the Covid-19 outbreak. Question: You have been instructed to undergo self-home quarantine after you happened to be involved with […]

Innovative home quarantine posters

BAU: In order for the people to comply with the movement control order (MCO), the Bau Village Development and Security Committee (JKKK) has put up several posters with eye-catching slogans to remind residents of the importance of staying at home to contain the spread of Covid-19. The posters, printed in three languages (Chinese, English and […]

State issues quarantine advisory

KUCHING: Malaysians, who are non-residents of Sarawak but who have been to China in the last fortnight, have been strongly advised not to visit Sarawak until their home quarantine period of 14 days is completed, and they are found to not have been infected with the novel coronavirus. The State Disaster Management Committee (JPBN) said […]