Health experts: Delta danger means no relaxing of rules for now


PETALING JAYA: Despite a steady improvement in the nation’s vaccination rate, health experts still want rules for face masks and physical distancing to be maintained in view of the increasing number of Covid-19 cases involving the Delta variant.

Malaysian Public Health Physicians’ Association president Datuk Dr Zainal Ariffin Omar said the authorities should keep the current standard operating procedures such as the mandatory use of face masks, physical distancing and scanning the MySejahtera app because of the widespread of the Delta variant and many community infections.“It is important to maintain the SOP as we can see an emergence of new clusters nationwide,” he said when contacted yesterday.

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