KOTA SAMARAHAN: Residents of Desa Ilmu and Uni Garden here are in fact appreciative that the Health Department is now doing house-to-house coronavirus checking, said Kota Samarahan Municipal Council (MPKS) chairman Datuk Peter Minos.
He said many here actually said that it was good that the Health Department is doing this because the two housing estates had positive coronavirus cases.
“Let’s clear and clean our two residential areas once and for all, house by house, and the small inconveniences are worth it,” said Minos, who is also a resident of Uni Garden.
He said there was no total lockdown at both housing estates and people could still go out to buy provisions at the prescribed time and maintaining social distancing at the markets and shops.
“With solid, valid and very good reasons, people can still get police permits to go outside the two housing estates but outsiders are not allowed to enter, except for urgent official matters and very essential things, and police are very strict here,” he said.
Minos explained that the whole idea was to check on every resident in the two housing estates and to prevent any possible infection from outside.
He said that not all roads were closed, only those sparingly used.
This, he said, was to prevent outsiders from entering easily and to make it more convenient for police to check people going in and out.
“So there is no panic here. No more complaints. No more misunderstanding. People have now accepted, even appreciated the exercise and the government’s move,” he added.
