Friday 15 January 2021

Calling on our local folks to be vigilant due to severe weather and flood conditions

In view of the present flood situation, our local folks were re­minded to be vig­i­lant through­out this week due to se­vere weather con­di­tions. In line with this, our Right Honourable Chief Minister has urged the peo­ple to be strong and pre­pared for evac­u­a­tion to tem­po­rary evac­u­a­tion cen­tres should their homes get in­un­dated, for their own safety. 

According to him, for this week the peo­ple will need to re­main vig­i­lant and wary of the sit­u­a­tion around them and at the same time, the flood vic­tims who were evac­u­ated to tem­po­rary evac­u­a­tion cen­tres were reminded to fol­low the stan­dard op­er­at­ing pro­ce­dures (SOP) to curb the spread of Covid19. Abang Johari said the process of evac­u­at­ing flood vic­tims to tem­po­rary flood evac­u­a­tion cen­tres in the state was closely mon­i­tored by the State Health De­part­ment and rel­e­vant agen­cies. 

That is why we are care­ful dur­ing the flood, and we do health screen­ing when the flood vic­tims were evacuated. When asked about spe­cial as­sis­tance for flood vic­tims, our Chief Minister said the state gov­ern­ment would con­sider the matter on the ad­vice by the State Disas­ter Man­age­ment Committee. On the num­ber of flood vic­tims in Kuching di­vi­sion, Abang Jo­hari said there were a to­tal of 2,268 flood vic­tims who had been placed at 30 tem­po­rary evac­u­a­tion cen­tres. Of that fig­ure, 1,949 were at 17 cen­tres in Kuching dis­trict while the re­main­ing 319 were at 13 cen­tres in Bau dis­trict.






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