Kudos to the owners and management of three local hotels in Sibu which have agreed in principle to use their premises as quarantine centres for Covid19 persons-under-surveillance (PUS).
The local hoteliers are from Sarawak Central Region Hotels Association and they would be providing an additional 400 rooms that should be available to take in returnees from outside Sarawak when the movement control order (MCO) in Sibu is lifted.
Currently there are three hotels in Sibu that are being used by the relevant authorities as quarantine centres with a total of 309 rooms and they are namely Premier Hotel, Mawan Hotel and Sarawak Hotel.
With more hotels owners offering their hotels as quarantine centres in Sibu, the authorities will have more accommodation facilities to use when eventually flights from outside Sarawak are resumed in the near future.
Currently, there are no flights into Sibu during the MCO period except for internal flights where PUS are people who returned to Sarawak via Sibu Airport and they are required to undergo 14 days of quarantine.
On same matter, the next two weeks will be crucial to determine if Sibu Division can curb the spread of Covid19 which is why the public must strictly comply with the Movement Control Order (MCO).
The State Government through Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC), State Health Department and Ministry of Health (MOH) need everyone of us to work together to curb the spread of the virus. In central zone itself, the authorities have recently locked down 19 longhouses in Pasai Siong area to curb the Covid19 from spreading locally.
Even though our local folks in the affected areas will not move about freely but it is also important for those without the disease not to come into close contact with them. It is therefore important to get our local folks to stay at home as much as possible and to comply with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) stipulated by the relevant authorities during these challenging times.
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