A source says 11 have already been arrested.
Over 100 foreign workers went into hiding after undergoing swab tests for Covid-19.
KUALA LUMPUR: A group of foreign workers has gone into hiding after swab tests carried out on those who had come into contact with infected workers at the Pavilion Embassy construction site here.“They escaped after the medical team took the swabs and while the police were on their way to cordon off the area,” he told FMT.
However, he said the authorities have their details as these were taken down for the tests, the results of which may be available today. He told FMT that a police report was lodged on the matter, and that 11 of the workers had been arrested already.Meanwhile, those in charge of the situation are expected to meet today.
There are about 400 workers at the Pavilion Embassy construction site which was placed under targeted enhanced movement control order yesterday.Deputy Federal Territories Minister Edmund Santhara said then that 28 workers, all foreigners, had been sent to the hospital with the rest put under strict quarantine at a hotel.Fake or not? Check our quick fake news buster
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