Firm probed for ferrying 135 workers with Covid-19 as lorry 'load'
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A chicken factory in Kedah is being investigated for endangering public health after it ferried its Covid-19 positive workers at the back of a lorry, which was open to the air.
Photographs and videos of the incident had gone viral after the vehicle was captured near the Sungai Petani Utara toll booth with complaints that it was inhumane to ferry the workers like cattle.
Acting on the social media complaints, the police managed to intercept the...
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