‘Consider periodic screening’

Keeping tabs: A health worker taking a nasal swab from a foreign worker in Kuala Lumpur. — AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

PETALING JAYA: As enforcement on the mandatory Covid-19 screening for foreign workers commenced on New Year’s Day, employers are calling on the government to consider periodic screening for both local and foreign workers owing to the increasing number of daily cases.

Small-Medium Enterprises Association of Malaysia president Datuk Michael Kang said some members that had begun testing their foreign workers some time ago found more Malaysian staff were contracting the virus.