KUALA LUMPUR: Nearly 700 individuals were nabbed for flouting the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) under the Movement Control Order (MCO) yesterday.
Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob in a statement today said 630 were slapped with compounds, 45 remanded while nine released on bail.
Failure to wear face masks topped the list of offences with 175 cases.
"Other offences were failure to record details at premises (143), unauthorised travel and eating in premises (83), failure to adhere to the movement control order (79), failure to observe physical distancing (77), engaging in activities at entertainment outlets (9) and others (118)."
Police conducted 70,851 checks nationwide including at restaurants, supermarkets, banks, and others.
Under Op Benteng, 1,339 arrests have been made since Jan 1 this year
In the same period, 3,523 undocumented immigrants have been detained while 211 tekong nabbed, with RM219.4 million seized.
Ismail Sabri said a total of 623 roadblocks were currently operating throughout the country.
Meanwhile, 138 sanitisation operations were carried out throughout the country involving 65 red zones, five orange zones, four yellow zones and one green zone.
"A total of 534 individuals returned from abroad yesterday and were placed at quarantine centres."
A total of 56 foreign workers were screened yesterday with none found positive for Covid-19, he said.
To date, 698,045 foreign workers have been screened with 10,320 of them positive for Covid-19.