‘Don’t blame UMS students for outbreak’
KOTA KINABALU: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) students say they should not be blamed for the Covid-19 outbreak on the campus.
Suara Mahasiswa UMS president Izzat Dahelan was responding to an online news portal which implied the students were infected after they were allowed to leave the campus following a protest.
“Associating the spread of the infection within the campus with stubborn students is baseless.
“Students had appealed to be allowed to leave the campus on the basis of their welfare and not for other unreasonable interests,” he said.
The Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) at UMS’ three residential colleges has been expanded to cover the whole campus from Monday until April 18 due to high infectivity.
Izzat said symptomatic Covid19 cases were detected on March 25 and confirmed on April 2, whereas students were allowed to go out only on March 26.
“It means the spread of the case happened before students were allowed to leave the campus on March 26.
“We hope students will not listen to inaccurate reports and stop blaming each other during this time as everything is beyond our control.”
He also urged the news portal to remove the article and apologise to UMS students.