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Al Jazeera (2 June 2020)

Emily Fishbein and Jaw Tu Hkawng

Despite strict movement restrictions that have helped contain the coronavirus, Malaysia finds itself facing a surge of cases in overcrowded detention centres that coincided with a series of raids last month in which more than 2,000 undocumented migrants were picked up.

"We have identified detention centres as a high-risk area," Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, the director-general of the Ministry of Health, said at a news briefing on May 26.

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