KUALA LUMPUR: 53 people who took part in activities that made physical distancing difficult and one illegal migrant were among 86 individuals nabbed on Friday for flouting the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO).
Senior Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said 30 were arrested for failure to properly register their details at business premises and two others for not wearing face masks.
"Of the total, 75 were slapped with compounds with the rest remanded for flouting the standard operating procedures (SOPs) enforced throughout the RMCO," he said in a statement today.
The senior minster added that the RMCO Operation Task Force, headed by the police, conducted 60,918 inspections nationwide on SOP compliance as the RMCO entered its 74th day yesterday.
"A total of 4,814 compliance teams involving 16,983 personnel conducted checks at 3,988 supermarkets, 5,188 restaurants, 1,026 hawkers, 1,668 factories, 3,617 banks and 924 government offices.
"The teams also inspected and monitored 1,069 land transport terminals, 243 water transport terminals and 109 air transport terminals," said Ismail Sabri.
The police, he said, also inspected 28,729 vehicles at 63 Ops Benteng roadblocks mounted nationwide to prevent undocumented immigrants from entering the country including via "rat lanes" (illegal routes).
He said 7,469 people who had completed their quarantine at 69 hotels and five public training institutions nationwide were allowed to return home on Friday.
They were among 15,174 returnees allowed to enter the country between July 24 and Aug 21, and subsequently placed under mandatory quarantine at designated centres in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Penang, Johor, Sarawak, Kelantan, Perak, Kedah, Perlis, Terengganu and Labuan.
"The returnees flew in from 32 countries namely the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei, Qatar, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, India, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Turkey, South Korea, Iran, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Timor Leste, Taiwan, China, the United Kingdom, Holland, Papua New Guinea, Egypt, Spain, France, Australia, New Zealand and the United States," he said.
Meanwhile, the Fire and Rescue Department deployed several teams comprising 43 men together with personnel from other agencies to conduct 12 disinfection operations at 10 zones in Sabah, Melaka, Sarawak, Pahang, Johor and Perlis on Friday.
"Since March 30, the Housing and Local Government Ministry has conducted 9,694 sanitisation operations at 134 zones nationwide," he said.
Checks conducted by the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) on 11 construction sites around the country yesterday showed only one did not comply with the SOPs.