KUALA LUMPUR: Selangor has rolled out a new initiative "SElangkah: Langkah Masuk dengan Selamat", a visitor registration system, to manage the spread of Covid-19 infection during the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) period.
Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari said the initiative was to aid the state health department in contact tracing should new Covid-19 infections occur.
He said the objective of the visitor log was to protect business operators, visitors and frontliners.
The SElangkah initiative would be implemented at all premises, government buildings, commercial and private premises.
Amirudin said owners of premises were required to print out and display the QR Code at their premises.
"For business operators, the QR Code can be downloaded at selangkah.mbiselangor.com.my or selangkah.my starting from May 5. Majority of the business premises have been registered but if you are not, you can do self registration at the said websites.
"For visitors, you are required to scan the QR Code, either before you enter the premises or while making payment, depending on the arrangement of the operators," he said in a statement today.
He said the visitor log would be supervised by the state government and would be accessed by the health officers if new Covid-19 cases were found to have originated from the premises.
"Through the system, visitors that had been present at the (Covid-19) involved premises can be identified and contacted faster.
"We hope that the SElangkah initiative would be the new normal for business activities during CMCO, that had been practiced by other countries such as South Korea and which had proven to be successful in containing the pandemic.
"However, the initiative will only work when everyone plays their part, from the public to the business community because health is everyone's business," he said.