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PUTRAJAYA: A total of 252,730 travellers were recorded to have entered or left Malaysia through the main entry points over the first four days since the reopening of the nation’s borders on April 1.

Immigration director-general Khairul Dzaimee Daud said 126,392 arrivals and 28,301 departures involved Malaysians, while 55,121 arrivals and 42,916 departures involved foreign travellers.

He said the gateway at the Sultan Iskandar Building in Johor recorded the highest movement involving foreigners, at 160,818, followed by the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) (38,407), Sultan Abu Bakar Complex, Johor (53,113), klia2 (11,712) and Bukit Kayu Hitam, Kedah (6,980).

The highest number of travellers were from Singapore (65,165), Thailand (7,841), Indonesia (5,173), India (2,477) and the UK (1,485), he added in a statement today.

Khairul Dzaimee also said the immigration department had issued 12,923 passports during the same period.

“The number is expected to increase as more people take advantage of the opening of the borders to travel abroad as well as to perform the umrah,” he said.