PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry will study if the 14-day mandatory quarantine period for Malaysians arriving from India should be extended to 21 days, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The Health director-general said this after the 132 people who were brought back from India on May 12 on a special repatriation mission have had their quarantine period extended for 21 days after seven of them tested positive for Covid-19."The ministry will carry out an immediate risk evaluation to determine if the 14-day mandatory quarantine period of Malaysians arriving from India should be extended to 21 days," he said.
He said the repatriation mission involved 92 adults and 40 children who had tested negative for the virus after undergoing RT-PCR tests before taking off from India. He said those flown back under the special mission from India comprised 64 males and 68 females with 117 of them Malaysians, eight from Brunei, four Danish, two Indian nationals and an Indonesian.
On Thursday , Dr Noor Hisham said that an individual who was detected with the Indian Covid-19 variant in the country only tested positive for the virus two weeks after arriving here from overseas.
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