Activists repeat call on govt to reassure migrants after scores vanish fearing arrests

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More than 100 workers went into ‘hiding’ after Covid-19 tests were carried out on them yesterday, possibly due to fears of being arrested by immigration authorities.PETALING JAYA: A migrant rights activist has urged Putrajaya to allay foreign workers’ fear of detention and deportation after more than 100 went into hiding following Covid-19 tests carried out on them. Some of the foreigners fled from a quarantine centre in Kuala Lumpur. North-South Initiative director Adrian Pereira said the government had no choice but to guarantee their safety and security in order to encourage them to be tested and traced. He told FMT that failing to do so would put Malaysians at risk of catching the virus. Referring to recent raids that resulted in the detention of hundreds of foreigners, he said: “NGOs have been advising the government from Day 1 not to conduct enforcement raids as it will back…