{"id":3913,"date":"2020-05-20T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2020-05-20T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:55:41","slug":"police-to-make-festive-home-visits-during-hari-raya-ismail-sabri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=3913","title":{"rendered":"Police to make festive home visits during Hari Raya &#8211; Ismail Sabri"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12 mt-4 px-sm-0 px-md-5 px-lg-15 text-dark text-justify\">\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 20\u00a0 &#8211; Don&#8217;t be surprised when the police come knocking at your door to check on\u00a0your house during this Aidilfitri celebration. Festive home visits by\u00a0the\u00a0Royal Malaysia\u00a0Police (PDRM) and the Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) will be conducted in residential areas during the festive season to ensure compliance with the standard operating procedures (SOP) on festive home visits.<\/p>\n<p>This has been announced by Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob in a press conference Tuesday, whereby the patrols would be conducted to, among others, as part of efforts by\u00a0the authorities to curb the spread of COVID-19 and ensure\u00a0public compliance with the SOP under the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12 mt-4 px-sm-0 px-md-5 px-lg-15 text-dark text-justify\">\n<p>The government has also announced that visiting during the coming Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Pesta Kaamatan and Hari Gawai will only be allowed on the first day of each celebration and is limited to immediate family members, with the gathering to not exceed 20 people in one day, depending on the size of the house.<\/p>\n<p>Strict action will be taken by police against the defiers,\u00a0including imposing compound on those caught ignoring interstate travel ban.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bukit Aman Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department (JSPT) director Datuk Azisman Alias, the actions of those who went on\u00a0interstate travel without reasonable grounds are\u00a0only interfering with the movement of frontline personnel who are trying to curb the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12 mt-4 px-sm-0 px-md-5 px-lg-15 text-dark text-justify\">\n<p>Their action only disrupted the movement of essential service vehicles to reach their destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the festive home visits and balik kampung (returning home) for the festive occasion, cemetery visit, which is a normal practice during\u00a0Hari Raya, is also being looked into it with the SOP for the (cemetery) visit during Aidilfitri to be released if the Health Ministry and the National Security Council feel\u00a0there is a need for it.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ismail Sabri, for now, the Health Ministry only advised the public not to visit the graves\u00a0in a move to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12 mt-4 px-sm-0 px-md-5 px-lg-15 text-dark text-justify\">\n<p>If all the SOPs are complied with and advice taken, there is a high chance of Malaysia being on the right to have the daily new COVID-19 positive cases dropping to less than 10.<\/p>\n<p>As explained by Health director-general\u00a0Datuk Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah yesterday, \u00a0Malaysia is still on track to see new\u00a0COVID-19 cases reduce to single-digits soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still on target based on our\u00a0modeling, but the more important thing\u00a0is that when we look back at the two weeks from the fourth of May until now, certainly the cases (COVID-19) have not increased, however, it\u2019s not also decreasing as fast as we want to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO) has helped to maintain the number of daily new COVID-19 cases at double digits,\u00a0and more importantly, there is no sudden surge in the number of new positive cases detected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 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