A new cluster of coronavirus infections has broken out in Malaysia at a detention center for undocumented migrants, authorities said on Saturday.
FILE PHOTO: Medical workers wearing protective suits pass by barbed wire at the red zone under enhanced lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng/File Photo
The United Nations and rights groups have called on Malaysia to stop the crackdown and criticized authorities for going after a vulnerable community during the pandemic.The health ministry said on Saturday that 21 cases were identified at the Semenyih detention center near the capital Kuala Lumpur, which houses around 1,600 detainees.
The ministry’s Director-General, Noor Hisham Abdullah, said the source of infections at the centers had not been identified.
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