KUALA LUMPUR: Only two people were arrested by police for violating restricted movement Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) yesterday.
Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the duo were caught for attempting to travel interstate without permission, adding that both were slapped with compound fines.
Yesterday's arrests were the lowest made by the police since the Movement Control Order (MCO) was first enforced on March 18 last year.
Ismail Sabri also said the Compliance Operation Task Force had conducted 48,495 inspections nationwide yesterday.
A total of 3,692 compliance teams had inspected 4,582 supermarkets, restaurants (5,795), factories (2,125), banks (3,011), government offices (1,019) and hawker stalls (4,022).
They also checked 120 markets/agro-markets, 231 places of worship, 16,447 recreational places, 3,194 land transport terminals, 1,807 water transport terminals and 1,006 air transport terminals.
Ismail Sabri said 50 illegal immigrants were nabbed with two boats and five land vehicles seized yesterday.
On returnees, he said 638 people had arrived at the international arrival points and were ordered to undergo mandatory quarantine.
Since July 24, authorities had logged 159,661 returnees with 1,194 were taken to the hospitals for treatment, he said.
Under the mandatory screening programme for foreign workers, he said, authorities had taken 2,950 samples with 43 tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday.
To date, 667,896 foreign workers in the country had taken the Covid-19 test with 10,116 were confirmed to have the virus.