PUTRAJAYA: Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pix) has pointed out that Malaysians returning from overseas have the potential to c...
has pointed out that Malaysians returning from overseas have the potential to contribute to the number of imported cases of Covid-19.
“I’m worried because if imported cases are not managed well, we get an exponential spike in the number of cases in mid-April because the incubation period is about two weeks. So, this is the concern we have and that’s the reason we implemented this Movement Control Order . In another development, he said 752 people returning from overseas were being quarantined in selected hotels and, from that number, eight were found to have symptoms of Covid-19.
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