MCO: Couple jailed four days, fined RM600 over shopping trip in Sabah


KOTA KINABALU: A couple, who went shopping together in Sabah’s south western Sipitang, was jailed four days and fined RM300 each by a magistrate's court here.

Emran Sahat, 55, and his wife Sarida Amat, 46, pleaded guilty to violating the movement control order (MCO) under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 before Sessions Court judge Ummu Khaltom Abdul Samas, who sat as magistrate.

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