Senior Minister for Security Ismail Sabri Yaakob, in a statement today, announced that the health ministry has also confirmed 87 close contacts linked to the 12 positive cases and all are currently being quarantined.

The EMCO is expected to affect 494 residents in the area. Perak, as with the rest of Peninsular Malaysia, is currently under MCO.

Meanwhile, Ismail said 752 people were arrested by the police yesterday over movement control order related offences.

He said 718 of them were fined while 34 were remanded.

Most of the offences, he said, were for not wearing face masks (277).

Among the other offences were failing to provide materials for contact tracing or registration (137), participating in activities which made physical distancing difficult (128), and travelling between states or districts without a permit (39).

Meanwhile, a total of 2,778 compliance task force teams were deployed to conduct checks on 16,297 supermarkets, restaurants, hawker stalls, factories, banks, government offices, as well as land, water and air transport terminals.

The authorities also detained 57 undocumented migrants as part of the ongoing Op Benteng campaign.

They also confiscated 10 vehicles.

On mandatory home quarantine, Ismail said 107,567 people who arrived through KLIA were screened for Covid-19 from July 24 and were placed under quarantine.

Some 558 tested positive and were sent to hospital for treatment.