Be truthful, Health DG stresses after infected overseas returnee led to five deaths

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CORONAVIRUS | Disclose all relevant info, he says, as he pointed to a cluster sparked by a patient who returned from Italy.

| Health Ministry director-general today emphasised the importance for patients to be truthful about their close contacts and travel history.

"The Health Ministry would like to stress the utmost importance for people to truthfully provide information if they have had close contact with a Covid-19 case, history of overseas travel or attended gatherings closely linked to the spread of Covid-19 which have been highlighted by the Health Ministry.

"To date, 37 people in the cluster have tested positive for Covid-19 where five people have died and one is in the intensive care unit and needs breathing aid. The cluster of infections have spread to the third generation," he told a press conference in Putrajaya today. The five from the cluster who have died are Case 1,031, Case 1,032, Case 1,006, Case 2,850 and Case 2,210."Therefore, there is a real risk of Covid-19 cases being imported into the country and causing outbreaks.

 

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Seems like putting our jobs and businesses at risk doesnt really matter that much to the enforcement authorities. Dont just pick up joggers and the helpless...be proactive

If the Perikatan Nasional Malay-Islamofascists and their running dogs who got themselves appointed PM and MInisters by the Agong are charging boys for playing football, why aren't they charging these fellows? Why the double standard DGHisham IsmailSabri60 PDRMsia

Wait, so they just let them go? no quarantine? wtf

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