SHAH ALAM: Police have clarified that no worker at the Top Glove hostel in Meru, Klang, which is under the Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO), was found climbing the fence there to flee the area.
A Selangor police Special Covid-19 spokesman ACP Muhammad Yazid Muhammad Yew said a photo that went viral on social media, showing male workers climbing the hostel fence, was actually showing them re-entering the area to be quarantined.
"An investigation found out that the fence-climbing incident which went viral took place on the first day of the EMCO at the Top Glove's workers hostel on Nov 17, before the Covid-19 screening was implemented.
"They climbed the fence as it was an easy way to re-enter the hostel because the barbed wire fences were being put up by the security personnel on duty," he told a media conference here, today.
Muhammad Yazid said further investigation also found that several male workers in the photo had been identified and they were currently undergoing quarantine at the hostel.
As such, he said claims on social media that the workers at the Top Glove hostel ran away to avoid being screened was not true and that no report over the issue was made after the photo went viral a few days ago.
He added security control at the EMCO area was proceeding smoothly and workers at the hostel co-operated during the Covid-19 screening.
Muhammad Yazid also warned the public against disseminating false information that could disrupt public order.
The EMCO at the Top Glove workers' hostel was enforced from Nov 17 until next Monday, following an increase in positive Covid-19 cases involving the Teratai Cluster. – BERNAMA