DG: Focus shifts to migrants


PETALING JAYA: The fight against Covid-19 is now focused on migrants as the bulk of new cases involved foreigners at Immigration detention centres and construction sites, says Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pic).

From now on, all new detainees entering the Immigration detention centres will be screened for Covid-19.

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