Runaway workers tested negative for Covid-19, say cops

Runaway workers tested negative for Covid-19, say cops

Police say they are still tracking down the workers who have yet to be arrested.

Some 300 workers were screened for Covid-19 after coming into close contact with construction workers who had tested positive for the virus.
KUALA LUMPUR:
Police say the foreign construction workers who fled after being screened for Covid-19 here today tested negative for the virus.

Federal Criminal Investigation Department director Huzir Mohamed also confirmed that 11 of the 145 workers had been arrested.

“Six of them were arrested before this and five today. Police are still acting on the remaining workers,” he said at a press conference here today.

The workers in question were part of a larger group of 300 screened for Covid-19 after coming into contact with infected workers at the Pavilion Embassy construction site here.

A source told FMT they escaped after the medical team had taken their swabs and before the police arrived to cordon off the area.

There are about 400 workers at the Pavilion Embassy construction site which was placed under targeted enhanced movement control order yesterday. Most of them are foreigners.

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