I thought wearing a face shield at press conference was good enough, says Tajuddin

PETALING JAYA: Prasarana chairman Datuk Seri Tajuddin Abdul Rahman says he thought wearing a face shield was good enough to comply with Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOP).

This comes after he was widely criticised on social media for not wearing a face mask during a recent press conference.

Free Malaysia Today (FMT) quoted the Prasarana chairman as saying that he thought just wearing the face shield would make it easier for the media to hear him.

"I was told the face shield was good enough, ” he was quoted as saying.

He added that he wore a face mask during a visit to the site of Monday night's (May 24) train crash.

“I am sorry if the face shield was not good enough. The shield is not an ordinary shield, (it was) specially ordered from a reliable source.

“But how do you talk during a press conference with a face mask? So I thought a (transparent) shield would be better, ” he told FMT, while confirming that he would be questioned by the police over the matter.

On Monday night, a train under manual control that was undergoing testing had run into another that was carrying 213 passengers between the underground KLCC and Kampung Baru stations.

The incident left 47 people severely injured and 166 others with light injuries.

They were later sent to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for treatment.

As of Tuesday, three patients were still in the intensive care unit.