KUALA LUMPUR: Nearly 300 people were slapped with compounds for violating the Movement Control Order's (MCO) standard operating procedures (SOP) yesterday.
Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the police had arrested 337 people, of which 289 were compounded and 48 others remanded.
He said of the total, 109 were detained for failing to observe physical distancing, 72 for activities at entertainment centres and 55 for failing to provide equipment to register customers' details.
Other offences include traveling interstate or interdistrict without permission (42), not putting on face masks (41), and others (18).
"The MCO operations task force headed by the police conducted 68,046 checks, including at supermarkets, restaurants, hawker stalls, factories, banks and government offices.
"Also inspected were air, land and water terminals," he said in a statement today.
Meanwhile, the authorities had detained seven illegal immigrants and seized two vehicles under Ops Benteng.
On mandatory foreign worker screening, Ismail Sabri said 2,909 foreign workers were screened yesterday, where eight tested positive for Covid-19.
He said cumulatively, the Human Resources Ministry had reported that 615,980 foreign workers had been screened, involving 31,921 employers.
"Of the total, 9,699 tested positive while 606,281 tested negative."