KUALA LUMPUR: A 10-day monitoring and observation period will be considered for those currently undergoing a 14-day quarantine, said health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said the health ministry would conduct tests on the 8th and 9th day of quarantine, for possible release of the patient on the 10th day.
The mandatory 14-day quarantine period has been cut to 10 days beginning today for travellers arriving from abroad and those undergoing close contact management.
Noor Hisham also said that the Covid-19 infection rate for Sept 12 to Dec 15 had been successfully reduced to 1.1 following the enforcement of the partial lockdowns under a conditional movement control order.
“We began with an R0 of 2.2. If there had been no CMCO, (as many as) four million citizens would have been infected. But the CMCO successfully reduced the R0 value to 1.1,” he said.
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