{"id":104357,"date":"2020-12-03T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T07:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=104357"},"modified":"2020-12-03T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T07:53:12","slug":"888000-foreign-workers-in-high-risk-areas-to-be-screened-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=104357","title":{"rendered":"888,000 Foreign Workers in High-Risk Areas to be Screened for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 (Bernama) &#8212; A total of 888,000 foreign\nworkers in high-risk areas are required to undergo COVID-19 screening which has\nstarted since Tuesday (Dec 1), says&nbsp;Senior Minister (Security\nCluster)&nbsp;Ismail Sabri Yaakob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said for the first phase, 100,000&nbsp;Antigen Rapid Test\nKits&nbsp;(RTK-Ag) would be distributed to the areas in Selangor, Negeri\nSembilan, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Sabah and Labuan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the first 48 hours, 367 private clinics and hospitals in\nthe respective areas had&nbsp;registered for the programme. At the same time,\n19,975 RTK-Ag&nbsp;Test Kids were&nbsp;distributed for the screening\nof&nbsp;foreign workers,\u201d&nbsp;he said in a special news conference, here,\nThursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also present was Human Resource&nbsp;Minister, M. Saravanan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ismail Sabri, who is also the Cabinet Committee\non&nbsp;Foreign Workers chairman, said the Human Resource&nbsp;Ministry would\ncollaborate&nbsp;with the Health Ministry to obtain more COVID-19 screening\ntest kits to be used in the programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bernama previously reported that the ministry would carry\nout targeted COVID-19 screening of&nbsp;foreign workers in the red zones with a\nhigh population of foreign workers from Dec 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The programme is carried out by the Social Security\nOrganisation (Socso), in collaboration with private clinics and\nhospitals&nbsp;to ensure comprehensive implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 (Bernama) &#8212; A total of 888,000 foreign workers in high-risk areas are required to undergo COVID-19 screening which has started since Tuesday (Dec 1), says&nbsp;Senior Minister (Security Cluster)&nbsp;Ismail Sabri Yaakob. He said for the first phase, 100,000&nbsp;Antigen Rapid Test Kits&nbsp;(RTK-Ag) would be distributed to the areas in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Kuala [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":104358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104357"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}