By Ling Hui
KUCHING, March 12: The Conditional Movement Order (CMCO) in the whole of Sarawak has been further extended for another 14 days from March 16 to 29.
State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said this decision has been made following an assessment on the recent number of positive cases that remained high.
This CMCO has been in implementation since Jan 18 this year and was extended several times over the months as there was no improvement in the Covid-19 situation throughout the state.
Meanwhile, the Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) at Sentosa Resettlement Scheme Phase 2 (Sentosa) in Sibu has been lifted.
“Today, SDMC has ended the EMCO at Sentosa Resettlement Scheme Phase 2, Sibu seeing that the second screening results did not return any new positive cases.
“Besides that, there is also no evidence suggesting any contagious infection in the area,” said Uggah during a press conference on Covid-19 update today.
In the event, the Deputy Chief Minister also announced the conversion of Telang Usan and Tanjung Manis from Covid-19 green to yellow zones.
He said the two districts recorded two and four local transmission cases today respectively.
Mukah, a Covid-19 yellow zone yesterday (March 11), also turned orange today after registering 22 local cases in the past 14 days.
With that, Serian, Bau, Subis, Julau, Selangau, Betong, Meradong, Kuching, Kapit, Bintulu, Miri and Sibu remain as red zones with a total of 2,586 local cases for the last two weeks.
“Song, Sarikei and Dalat remain orange with a cumulative number of 77 local cases in the last 14 days.
“Districts such as Sri Aman, Kanowit, Samarahan, Belaga, Lundu, Bukit Mabong, Tatau, Marudi, Pusa, Asajaya, Beluru, Saratok and Sebauh also remain as the yellow zones with 109 local cases,” added Uggah.
Sarawak is then left with nine districts under Covid-19 green zones. They are Pakan, Matu, Lawas, Daro, Simunjan, Lubok Antu, Limbang, Tebedu and Kabong. — DayakDaily
