This is because there is a shortage of hotel rooms to be used to quarantine and isolate PUS cases around the state as more are expected to return to Sarawak from overseas or from other states during the Ramadan period. I have mentioned this to our media friends on our State Government efforts to implement the new procedures for those quarantined in designated hotels, taking into account the feedbacks we got from people, and the shortages of hotels to house these PUS cases.
I have also mentioned that one way to deal with this would be to allow the PUS cases to go home if their first test results were negative because maybe after two or three days being quarantined in their hotel rooms, when their results come back negative, they are allowed to go home, but they must continue their home-quarantine for the remainder of the 14-day period.
On that note, the Sarawak Multimedia Authority (SMA) is going to order more smart wrist tags for PUS cases due to a shortage in the supply which also could not meet the increasing number of PUS cases at the moment. In the meantime, we are advising those classified as PUS to strictly abide by the Movement Control Order (MCO) as well as the quarantine order or otherwise the police will take action against them.
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