Mandatory quarantine not needed for close contacts from Friday (April 22)
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2022...friday-april-22
PETALING JAYA: Mandatory quarantine for the close contacts of Covid-19 cases will no longer be necessary from Friday (April 22).
In a Twitter post on Thursday (April 21), the Health Ministry announced the new procedures would no longer distinguish between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
It explained that close contacts with Covid-19 symptoms were encouraged to quarantine and perform a Rapid Test Kit-Antigen (RTK-Ag) self-test from the time they developed symptoms.
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Khairy Jamaluddin says close contacts don’t need to be isolated if they don’t have any symptoms, regardless of their vaccination status.
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/...inated-says-kj/
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https://covidprotocol.moh.gov.my/en/kontak-rapat/
Close Contact
You are a close contact if you had a direct contact with a COVID-19 positive case, either face-to-face more than 15 minutes with a less than 1 meter distance and without wearing a mask or you had a physical contact.
If you are symptomatic or have not received a booster dose, please quarantine according to the set quarantine period. (refer to the table below)
If you are asymptomatic, you are not required to perform a COVID-19 RTK(Ag) self-test to be released from quarantine at the end of your quarantine.
The quarantine period remains the same even though you have developed symptoms during quarantine with condition that your COVID-19 RTK(Ag) self-test is negative at the end of quarantine.
Monitor your health during quarantine and report your symptoms during via the Health Assesstment Tool (HAT) on MySejahtera. If symptomatic, perform a COVID-19 RTK(Ag) self-test.
If positive, refer to the COVID-19 case management protocol.
Fully vaccinated close contacts are exempted from quarantine if infection was within 60 days of contact with a COVID-19 positive case.
(Vaccination Status) - (Quarantine Period) - (Tests Required) - (Release From Quarantine)
Boosted (asymptomatic): no quarantine required, RTK(Ag) self-test on Day-1 and Day-3.
Boosted (symptomatic): 5 days quarantine, RTK(Ag) self-test, release on Day-5.
Fully Vaccinated: 5 days quarantine, RTK(Ag) self-test if symptomatic, release on Day-5.
Partially/Not Vaccinated: 7 days quarantine, RTK(Ag) self-test if symptomatic, release on Day-7.
(Effective from 1 March 2022)
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Positive Case Management, see post #2.
This post has been edited by ScooterBoi: Apr 22 2022, 03:45 AM