Covid-19: Health Ministry updates, relaxes SOPs following decline in cases

"Following the statement made by WHO on May 5, we have reviewed and updated the SOP based on assessment of the current Covid-19 infection situation here.

"In terms of hospital capacity, the number of admissions of Covid-19 patients in public hospitals and the filling of beds in Covid-19 facilities have decreased, while the percentage of beds filled in the Intensive Care Unit remains stable at 6%."As of June 27, a total of 16,337,744 Malaysian residents have received the first booster dose and only 2.5% have received the second booster dose.

Dr Zaliha said isolation procedures for confirmed cases of Covid-19 will have the period shortened from seven days to five days from the onset of the first symptoms."This is based on studies that say that the infectivity of Covid-19 cases is high in the first five days from the onset of symptoms with a high viral load during that period," she said.

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