Penang starts mass screening of foreign workers

Mouth swabs being taken from a foreign worker by health personnel in protective wear.

PENANG has begun mass Covid-19 screening of foreign workers, with a target of screening all the 51,208 registered ones within a month.

State local government committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo said the government was serious in getting all the 14,436 workers from the construction industry and 36,772 workers from the manufacturing industry screened.