Perak tourism chief: 32 passengers leave for Singapore in first flight from Ipoh since MCO
Sunday, 07 Jun 2020 08:00 PM MYT
File picture of a plane arriving at the Sultan Azlan Shah Airport in Ipoh. — Picture by Marcus Pheong IPOH, June 7 — Thirty-two passengers comprising locals as well as citizens and permanent residents of Singapore, today left for the republic from the Sultan Azlan Shah Airport here, the first flight since the movement control order was enforced on March 18.Perak Housing, Local Government and Tourism Committee chairman Datuk Nolee Ashilin Mohammed Radzi said only one flight departed from LTSAS today.
“So far there has been only one flight to that country and the state government is ready including providing a quarantine centre if there is an incoming flight to Perak,” she said when contacted. Meanwhile, Ipoh district police chief ACP A. Asmadi Abdul Aziz said the flight consisted of eight Singaporeans including a child, 19 permanent residents of Singapore and five Malaysian students studying in the neighbouring country. — Bernama
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