Health Ministry to consider extending quarantine period to 21 days for those returning from India


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.

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