Khairy Jamaluddin says the Act 342 amendment Bill is primarily targeted at repeat offenders and specific cases like the previous Teratai cluster linked to manufacturer Top Glove.
The MITI minister says 70,317 cases were detected in 761 manufacturing clusters from June 1-August 30, comprising only 6.1% of 1,153,000 overall new Covid-19 infections nationwide.
Yeo Bee Yin tells Khairy Jamaluddin to improve the FTTIS approach, as insufficient testing and inefficient manual contact tracing allows the virus to spread unchecked.
Only fully vaccinated individuals and people who have recovered from Covid-19 will be able to dine in groups of five without taking Covid tests starting today.
89% of Covid-19 cases reported April 9-May 8 were sporadic. Cluster-linked cases from malls, shops and markets combined, as well as from factories comprised only 0.1% and 2.1% of total infections that month respectively.
Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah says MCO 2.0 failed to reduce daily Covid-19 cases to below 1,000 perhaps because the social, education and sports sectors were reopened too early in March.