Group moved to hotel after complaints about crowding, dirty quarantine centre (updated)


JOHOR BARU: A group of seven men who just returned on a ferry from Batam claims they had to endure an uncomfortable 24 hours after they were sent to a quarantine centre that was in unsatifactory conditions upon their return.

The men, all working on an oil rig in Myanmar, said instead of being put on home quarantine, they were sent to the centre in Jalan Gertak Merah here.

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