KUALA LUMPUR: The nasi kandar shop at the centre of the Persons Under Investigation (PUI) Sivagangga Cluster in Kedah was found to have not used the Mysejahtera application or adopt any form of manual visitors' registration.
It had also failed to take the body temperatures of patrons prior to allowing entry, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah revealed today.
"Our challenge is now to detect close contacts with the absence of the Mysejahtera application or other applications or any sort of other records. There should have been," he said during a press conference at the ministry headquarters today.
He said in areas where there were no records such as the PUI Sivagangga Cluster, Targeted Enhanced Movement Control Order (TEMCO) would be enforced.
Dr Noor Hisham remarked how the index case of the cluster's failure to comply with the Home Surveillance Order had now resulted in a total of 21 positive Covid-19 cases.
"He breached the standard operating procedures (SOP) and we have already fined him. That was our action from the health (ministry) aspect and we need to contain the infection in the community.
"He was found positive and taken to the hospital and isolated.
"I recommend that legal action (is taken against him) under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342).
"I ask that we let the law take its course and not take matters into our own hands," said Dr Noor Hisham.
Meanwhile he said it was now compulsory for employers, business operators, companies and premises owners to have the MySejahtera application to enable visitors' registration which will ease the process of contact tracing in the future.
Dr Noor Hisham said the ministry will make it mandatory by incorporating the ruling into the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342).
"As announced by the Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob earlier, the government is making the use of the application mandatory at all premises to enable the process of close contact tracing of Covid-19 positive cases."