Don T Return To Hometowns Health Dg Tells Those In Red Zones

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Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah warns that 60-70% of Covid-19 patients don’t display symptoms and could easily spread the virus to others.PUTRAJAYA: Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has advised Malaysians living in red zones to avoid returning to their hometowns to prevent spreading Covid-10 to their loved ones there.
He said there had been a few cases and clusters caused by this, including one in Alor Gajah, Melaka, linked to the Utama cluster.
Another incident happened in Kelantan when an individual infected four family members after returning to the hometown, also causing 127 people in total to be screened.
“If possible, avoid crossing any state or district borders.
“We might bring back the virus even if we don’t have any symptoms. As we know, 60-70% of Covid-19 patients don’t have symptoms.
“We also want to stress that those in green zones must also take precautionary measures.
“If someone returns from a red zone, avoid getting exposed to them,” he said at a press conference today.
Why number of people at Parliament needs to be reduced
Noor Hisham also explained the rationale for the tightened SOPs for Dewan Rakyat proceedings, saying this was to keep Parliament Covid-19-free and to ensure sittings could still continue.
When asked if this meant that prior action, such as the setting up of partitions in the lower house, were not effective, he said the ministry was always looking to improve its SOPs.
“In Parliament, there are 222 MPs, but it also involves other workers too.
“If each MP has one aide, that’s already more than 400 people coming to Parliament. And there’s still the other Parliament staff.
“The Klang Valley is currently under a CMCO, so they could be exposed to Covid-19 cases in the community who are asymptomatic,” he added.
It was earlier announced that only 80 of the 222 MPs will be allowed in the Dewan Rakyat at any one time from tomorrow, while sittings will be shortened to four hours next week onwards, from 10am to 2pm. - FMT

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