Groups warm up to dropping temp check

A security personnel seen removing the temperature reader as temperatures screening in no longer mandatory in the latest SOP updates. - YAP CHEE HONG/The Star

PETALING JAYA: Temperature scans are ineffective because they can never really detect if anyone had Covid-19, say business groups as they laud the government’s proposal to do away with this standard operating procedure (SOP).

“Initially, we thought that temperature checks were the most important thing, but now as we know it, those who have Covid-19 can be asymptomatic, so they would not register any temperature,” said Malaysia Retailers Association vice-president Datuk Ameer Ali Mydin.