Parents entitled to leave if child requires quarantine, isolation, says Public Service DG

KUALA LUMPUR: The government has agreed to extend the quarantine leave facility to other infectious diseases requiring quarantine or isolation effective March 4.

Public Service director-general Datuk Seri Mohd Shafiq Abdullah (pic) said that the facility had previously been limited to six types of infectious diseases - foot-hand-and-mouth disease, dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever, measles, diphtheria and malaria.