‘Review of close contact quarantine requirements’


PETALING JAYA: Businesses will not be able to operate smoothly and, worse, be forced to shut down if the government maintains the current quarantine requirement for close contact.

The Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) president Datuk Dr Syed Hussain Syed Husman said the government should review the requirement which seems impractical to be implemented especially with the wild spread of the Omicron variant.

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