Health DG: Malaysia's first COVID-19 Omicron case who arrived two weeks ago has tested negative yesterday - SoyaCincau

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The first Omicron case and her close contacts conducted RT-PCR tests yesterday and were found negative. The 19-year-old student was previously tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving at KLIA on 19 November, before the first Omicron case was reported...

after a series of tests were conducted on a total of 74 people who were tested positive for COVID-19 at KLIA from2nd December 2021After we found out about Omicron we went back to do genomic tests on all positive cases from KLIA between 11 and 28 November to see if it is already here. That’s how we detected the case.

He also said none of her close contacts were symptomatic and the Ministry of Health had called all of them back yesterday to undergo a PCR swab testing just to make sure they are not positive. All 8 RT-PCR tests have returned negative which included the driver, university staff, university mates, and two roommates.

Khairy said, “For omicron, what this tells us is that the system works”. He said we can capture it and if everyone sticks to the rules, we can contain it, but we all have to accept the possibility of Omicron cases here in Malaysia as there are in other countries as well.

 

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