Keeping watch: Esscom personnel patrolling an oil palm plantation in Kalabakan, bordering Indonesia’s Kalimantan.
KOTA KINABALU: Security forces in the east coast have stepped up operations against illegal immigrants trying to slip into Sabah via backdoor routes amid rising cases of Covid-19 in the state.
Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) Commander Deputy Comm Datuk Ahmad Fuad said operations were focused on the Kalabakan area along the east coast bordering Indonesia’s Kalimantan.
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