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PUTRAJAYA: Those returning from Sabah must undergo the full 14-day home quarantine, even if they test negative for Covid-19, says Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The Director General of Health said this was because the number of cases involving returnees from Sabah continued to rise despite the Health Ministry’s request for self-isolation.
“Despite the fact that the Ministry of Health has examined people who arrived from Sabah since September 27 and issued them the Household Surveillance Order (HSO) until their tests returned negative, new cases and Covid groups -19 related to this group continue to increase.
“To solve this problem, and also considering the increase in cases from Sabah, all arrivals from the state must be screened for Covid-19 and undergo HSO for 14 days from the arrival date.
“They have to wear a bracelet and they have to self-regulate using the home assessment tool in the MySejahtera app,” Dr. Noor Hisham said at a press conference from home quarantine.
Previously, returnees from Sabah who were asymptomatic and had not had close contact with any positive Covid-19 cases may be free from quarantine once they test negative for the virus.
However, those who test negative but are close contacts of Covid-19 patients or have symptoms must undergo quarantine.
Dr. Noor Hisham said that as of Monday (October 12), 394 Covid-19 cases in the country are attributed to people with a history of recent travel to Sabah since September 22.
In the same period, a total of 18,748 people who had returned from Sabah were tested for Covid-19.
“Of the total 394 cases, 228 or 57.9% involve people who had traveled to Sabah before September 27.
“The remaining 166 cases or 42.1% are those that returned after September 27,” he said.
He also said that as of Tuesday (October 13), 23 of the Covid-19 clusters in the country originate from index cases that had recently traveled to Sabah.
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