Come clean with overseas travel history!

 By Olivia Miwil - August 6, 2020 @ 9:28am

Sabah Health director Datuk Dr Christina Rundi said that based on their monitoring at the International Point of Entry, some passengers did not provide their overseas travel history within the past 14 days prior to their arrival in Sabah. - NSTP File pic

KOTA KINABALU: People coming into Sabah are required to come clean with their travel history to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the state.

Sabah Health director Datuk Dr Christina Rundi said that based on their monitoring at the International Point of Entry, some passengers did not provide their overseas travel history within the past 14 days prior to their arrival in Sabah.

"This is a serious offence which may cause the spread of the disease here from outside the state.

"These information must be declared in the Health Declaration Form when entering Sabah and action will be taken under the Prevention and Control of Infection Disease Act 1988 (Act 342) for failure to provide these vital information," she said in a press statement.

Dr Christina also added that all passengers from overseas will have to undergo compulsory quarantine for 14 days at designated quarantine centres and will have to bear all expenses during the period.

As of yesterday, 1,356 people are still undergoing quarantine in the state and 16 patients out of 402 reported Covid-19 cases are still receiving treatment at hospitals.

The state recorded two Covid-19 cases involving a 5-year-old preschooler from Penampang and another woman from Beluran recently.

Both were detected to have the virus when they sought treatment at government health facilities.

Meanwhile, Sabah Archbishop John Wong has urged the community of the Church of Mary Immaculate (CMI) in Bukit Padang to abstain from going to other churches to prevent the spread of infection.

CMI has suspended two weeks of its activities at the church after a parishioner was confirmed to contract Covid-19 on Aug 4.

"For extra precautions, I would like to advise those who have attended mass at CMI on July 19 and 26 not to attend other churches in the next two weeks. Please stay at home and follow the live streaming masses instead.

"I apologise for the inconveniences you have to go through. Let us pray that it is only an isolated case and we can resume mass at CMI again after two weeks," Wong said in a statement.