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PUTRAJAYA: Those returning from Sabah must undergo 14 days of home quarantine, even if they tested 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 selection of the Ministry of Health and the request for self-regulation.
“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 considering the increase in cases from Sabah, all arrivals from the state must be screened for Covid-19 and submitted to HSO for 14 days from the arrival date.
“They should put on a bracelet and self-regulate using the home assessment tool in the MySejahtera app,” he said.
Previously, returnees from Sabah who are asymptomatic and have not had contact with any positive Covid-19 cases may be free from quarantine once they tested negative.
However, those who tested negative but are close contacts of Covid-19 patients or have symptoms should undergo quarantine.
Dr. Noor Hisham said that as of yesterday, 394 Covid-19 cases in the country were 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 the state had been screened for Covid-19.
“Of the total 394 cases, 228 or 57.9% involved people who had traveled to Sabah before September 27. The remaining 166 cases or 42.1% are those who returned after September 27,” he said. , adding that as of yesterday, 23 of the Covid-19 clusters in the country originated from index cases that traveled to Sabah recently.
Previously, Dr. Noor Hisham confirmed 660 new infections in the country, the second highest daily figure since the outbreak began, and Sabah continued to record the highest with 443 cases, followed by Selangor with 76 and Kedah with 60 new cases.
Six new conglomerates have been detected, four in Sabah and one in Selangor and Penang.
The Semarak and Sabindo conglomerates in Tawau reported 14 new positive cases respectively, while the Bina conglomerate in Beaufort 14 and the Bestari conglomerate in Sandakan 19.
In the Penjara Jawi group from Penang, three individuals tested positive so far, and none of them showed any symptoms.
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