KOTA KINABALU: Malaysia is unable to deport some 5,300 illegal Filipinos as the Philippines is not ready to take back their citizens due to the Covid-19 pandemic, says the National Security Council.
State director Sharifah Sitti Saleha Habib Yussof said they could not carry out the deportation of the Filipinos who were currently being held in the temporary detention centres in the state.
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