KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 — The enhanced movement control order (EMCO) will be enforced in several areas of Perak, Terengganu, Sabah and Pahang from Saturday to June 11 due to rising Covid-19 cases, Senior Minister (Security) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said.

In a statement today, Ismail identified these as Mukim Sitiawan in Manjung, Perak and Mukim Kuala Berang in Hulu Terengganu, Terengganu.

He added that three localities in Bera, Pahang and two villages across Sabah will also be placed under the EMCO for the same period.

On Sitiawan, Ismail Sabri said the Ministry of Health (MoH) had reported that 135 Covid-19 cases were detected in its borders between May 10 and May 23, making up 58.7 per cent of the cases in the Manjung district.

"Besides that, there was a sharp increase in cases in high density areas, as well as infections among the community in this Mukim, which involved the towns of Sitiawan, Ayer Tawar, Kampung Koh, Pasir Panjang and Seri Manjung,” he said.

In Kuala Berang, Ismail said 37 out of the 213 people screened for Covid-19 tested positive for the disease recently.

For the three localities in Bera — Triang town, Kemayan and Gugusan Mendi — Ismail said 76 out of 1,258 people there tested positive for Covid-19 recently.

Meanwhile, Kampung Baru Durok in Keningau, Sabah and Kampung Mook in the neighbouring district of Kinarut, recently recorded 28 and 35 Covid-19 positive cases.