Sivagangga super spreader gets five months’ jail, fined RM12k


ALOR SETAR: The owner of the nasi kandar restaurant linked to the Sivagangga cluster has been jailed five months and fined RM12,000 after he pleaded guilty for defying a quarantine order under the recovery movement control order (MCO).

The sentence was passed down by Magistrate Mohd Hadi Hakimi Harun from the Jitra Magistrate's Court with proceedings held at the isolation ward in Block I of the old Alor Setar Hospital here Thursday (Aug 13).

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