KUALA LUMPUR: Restaurant owners must inform the police if they provide their own food delivery services in order to avoid complications that could arise at roadblocks manned by the authorities during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period.
Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the restaurant owners must also provide the necessary documents to confirm that they employ food delivery riders in order to receive approval.
"We are aware that not all restaurant owners and riders are registered with popular food delivery service companies. There are some in small towns that hire their own riders.
"This has been discussed with the police and it has been decided that the restaurant owners (employers) must inform the police and issue a letter to confirm that they have riders under them.
"This is to enable them to get through the roadblocks. I hope they will seek permission from the police soon," he said at a press conference today.
On a separate matter, Ismail Sabri, who is also Senior Defence Minister, said up to 172,248 foreign workers in six states had been tested for Covid-19 as at noon today.
He said the foreign workers under 6,448 employers were screened following the government's Dec 1, 2020 directive.
The government had made it compulsory for foreign workers in Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Penang, Sabah, Kuala Lumpur and Labuan to be tested for the virus.
The cost would be borne by the employers.
"We expect about 880,000 foreign workers in the six states to be tested by the end of February. This move is to ensure that they are treated if they are found positive and quarantined until they are fit to return to work.
"As we know, there are many infections among factory and construction site workers. That was why we made it a must for their employers to ensure that they are tested," he said.
He said to date, 828 clinics are involved in the screening programme.