MELAKA: The Melaka state government has requested the Public Service Department (JPA) to list Covid-19 as a communicable disease to enable parents to apply for unrecorded leave if their children need to be quarantined.
State Health and Anti-Drug Committee chairman Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh said the facility would be similar to the leave allowed under Service Circular Number 11 of 2016, namely to take care of children infected with six listed infectious diseases, such as hand, foot and mouth disease and diphtheria.
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