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MOH welcomes tighter quarantine for selected overseas arrivals

Apr 25, 2021

The Health Ministry has welcomed the decision to increase the quarantine period for travelers from certain countries.

This, after the government announced that those coming in from countries such as the UK, South Africa, Brazil and Japan will need to undergo a 14-day quarantine instead of 10.

It came as the Health Director-General said four more cases of the highly-infectious South African variant of Covid-19 have been identified in Malaysia, bringing the total number of such cases here to 21 since the start of the year.

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2,717 new coronavirus cases were detected nationwide yesterday.

70 percent of the infections were reported in Selangor, Sarawak, Kelantan and KL.

Selangor alone had 768 cases yesterday…followed by Sarawak and Kelantan with more than 500 each.

Meanwhile, seven out of the 10 new Covid-19 clusters reported yesterday, were detected at workplaces.

According to the Health Ministry, two work-related clusters each were reported in Selangor and Perak…with one apiece in Penang, Terengganu and Pahang.

There were also one community cluster each in Perak and Sabah…while one in KL involved an education institution.

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Just under half a million individuals have already received both doses of their Covid-19 vaccine, under the National Immunisation Program.

The Health Minister adds that as of Friday…more than 783 thousand have received their first dose…bringing the total number of vaccine shots administered in the country to nearly 1.3 million.

This, as the minister confirmed that we have received our first batch of 268 thousand doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.