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.