A team of police officers in riot gear had to be deployed to the Covid-19 low-risk quarantine centre at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (Maeps) last night after a commotion broke out between patients over a handphone theft.

In 10.30pm incident, a group of patients caught two others for allegedly stealing four devices.

Sepang district police chief Wan Kamarul Azran Wan Yusof said police were deployed to control the situation after being alerted by a doctor.