Covid-19: Cops on the lookout for four foreigners who fled after being screened

The three men who fled.

SEPANG: Police are looking for three men and a woman, who are foreign workers, who fled after being screened for Covid-19.

Sepang OCPD Asst Comm Wan Kamarul Azran Wan Yusof said a road works company based at Lukut, Port Dickson, had screened 26 workers living at a kongsi house at Sepang on May 13.

"On Monday, they received a call from a doctor saying that one of the Indonesian workers had tested positive for the virus.

"The worker was sent to the Sungai Buloh Hospital for treatment, but at the same time, the company found that four of their workers had fled," he said when contacted on Wednesday (May 20).

He added that on Tuesday (May 19) the Sungai Pelek Klinik Kesihatan ordered the company to bring the remaining workers for another screening at 10.30am and two Bangladeshi workers tested positive for the virus.

"An ambulance took both workers to the Sungai Buloh Hospital for treatment on the same day.

"We have identified the four missing workers as Juliana Sari, 22, Paisal, 26, Jasman, 27 and Afrizal, 24," he said, adding that while police could not find records of Juliana's passport, the three others passport numbers were C4105128, C4313370 and B7736104 respectively.

He urged anyone with information on the missing workers to come forward immediately so that they could be sent to hospital immediately for treatment.