Teen waitress pretends to have Covid-19 to get out of work, gets arrested instead


ISKANDAR PUTERI: A 19-year-old waitress was arrested here for allegedly faking her Covid-19 test results to get out of going to work.

Iskandar Puteri OCPD Asst Comm Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said that the teenager was arrested at about 1pm at her house in Mutiara Rina area on Tuesday (April 6) to assist in investigations following a report lodged by her employer on the same day.

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