Friday, 14 May 2021 10:28 PM MYTHealth director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah speaks during a press conference after visiting Putrajaya Hospital in conjunction with the Aidilfitri celebration, May 13, 2021. ― Bernama picKUALA LUMPUR, May 14 — Malaysians and their families who returned from India over the past two days will have their mandatory quarantine period for Covid-19 extended from 14 days to 21, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah announced today.
In a statement tonight, Dr Noor Hisham noted that India has been recording over 300,000 new Covid-19 cases every day since April 2021 and that such figures are the highest globally, further highlighting that this has led to the Malaysian government’s approval of a Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief mission to bring Malaysians and their spouses or families back from India.
Of the 132 individuals brought back, they comprise of 64 male and 68 female, with 117 being Malaysians, eight being Brunei citizens, four Denmark citizens, two Indian nationals, and one Indonesian. “It was found that no passengers displayed symptoms, but swab samples were taken from them for the RT-PCR test for Covid-19. The test results obtained on May 13, 2021 showed seven of the 132 passengers had tested positive for Covid-19 with a positivity rate of 5.3 per cent,” he said.
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