Police locating 11 expats who fled quarantine

The Maldives Police Service (MPS) has begun locating a group of expatriates that fled from quarantine facilities.

Police revealed that all 11 migrant workers, native to Bangladeshi, were undocumented and residing illegally in the country.

They fled from quarantine while authorities had been working to deport them from the island nation.

The authority has urged the public to come forth if any information regarding the run-aways is attained, and call 9631696, the police General Investigation Department.

This comes at a time those violating orders from authorities are being placed under police custody. Refusing to go into quarantine and fleeing from a facility is deemed a violation under the Public Health Act. Several individuals have been taken into quarantine after the Civil Court ordered the authorities to do so, after they refused to be taken.

In May, authorities remanded five Maldivian men that fled from the quarantine facility in southernmost Herathera Island Resort as well.