KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Malaysians who want to return to the country must register on the website of the National Disaster Management Agency (NADMA), Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
He said this following public complaints of the delay in registering at the quarantine stations either at the hotels or public training institutes (ILA).
“To facilitate the registration process, people who want to return to the country are encouraged to provide NADMA with details of their dates of travel as well as time of arrival and the choice of quarantine station, whether hotel or ILA.
“NADMA will develop the portal for the information process and quarantine station soon,” he said at the press conference on the development of the Recovery Movement Control Order at the Parliament Building here today.
Ismail Sabri also said the government has allowed individuals who are quarantined at the quarantine stations to order food from outside through online delivery.
However, he said, they must sign a letter of undertaking and take responsibility in the event of food poisoning or other mishaps.
Meanwhile, Ismail Sabri said although the MOH had detected the D614G mutation from the Sivagangga and Bukit Tiram cluster patients, its spread could be contained by implementing the Targeted Enhanced Movement Control Order (TEMCO) in the affected areas.
“This situation (TEMCO) is seen as successful and until today there is no new infection in the Sivagangga cluster,” he said.
Prior to this, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the sudden increase in cases in the Sivagangga cluster is among the evidence that D614G mutation could make the disease 10 times more infectious.
He said the ministry found that the Sivagangga cluster spread rapidly due to the D614G type mutation and laboratory studies had also confirmed it.