All these repatriated employees had actually evaluated negative for the unique coronavirus disease (COVID-19) prior to being sent out to their native lands
Kuala Lumpur – The Malaysian government repatriated 2,500 undocumented Indonesian migrant workers as part of the enforcement of its movement control order (MCO) to ease the transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic in the neighboring nation.
As lots of as 4,200 other undocumented migrant employees would quickly be repatriated, Malaysian Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob stated at a press conference in Putrajaya on Friday.
Yaakob kept in mind that 672 undocumented migrant workers from Indonesia were sent out house from Sabah in Malaysia that shares its border area with Indonesia’s North Kalimantan Province, while 5,280 unlawful workers from the Philippines will be repatriated on June 30.
” All these repatriated employees had actually checked unfavorable for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) prior to being sent out to their countries of origin,” he mentioned.
The Malaysian federal government has earlier meant the release of 4,800 undocumented Indonesian migrant employees from the country’s migration detention houses to then be repatriated to Indonesia because June 6.
According to ANTARA, officials of the Malaysian Immigration and Foreign Ministry had held conversations on this repatriation-related plan with their counterparts from the Indonesian Embassy on May 28.
An overall of 2,189 undocumented Indonesian migrant workers staying at numerous immigration detention centers in the Malaysian Peninsula and Sarawak along with 672 others in Sabah were repatriated under the very first stage on June 6.
The very first batch of 450 undocumented migrant workers was flown back to Indonesia through Jakarta, Medan, and Surabaya on June 6, while 445 others returned through those 3 Indonesian cities on June 10.
The repatriation of 1,294 undocumented migrant employees to Medan was performed by sea on June 22.
On May 29, the Malaysian federal government had centered attention on the agreement of the governments of Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Nepal to its proposition to repatriate their illegal migrant workers and undocumented residents that had checked unfavorable for COVID-19
Comparable to numerous other countries across the world, Malaysia to have been endeavoring to flatten the curve of COVID-19 cases and to deal with the socio-economic effects of the virus that firstly struck the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019.
The Malaysian government has enforced an MCO to stem the transmission of this COVID-19 pandemic.
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