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New rules for hospital visits

Apr 22, 2022

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Starting tomorrow, visitors and caregivers will be allowed to accompany patients in hospital wards subject to new protocols.

The Health Ministry says caregivers and visitors must be 12 years old and above, be fully vaccinated, and are not at high-risk of COVID-19 infection.

For COVID patients, only caregivers will be allowed to be present specifically for patients who need special care, as well as child patients.

No visitors are allowed for COVID patients, except for end-of-life patients.

Meanwhile, caregivers and visitors of non-COVID patients, including those accompanying pregnant mothers during labour, must test negative for the coronavirus, among other SOPs.

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Bukit Aman – Wearing a face mask is still mandatory

Police have rubbished a viral message alleging those who fail to wear a face mask during Ramadan and Hari Raya Aidilfitri will not be fined.

Bukit Aman reiterated that SOPs for the transition phase to endemicity are still enforced.

As such, it stressed that wearing a face mask in public remains mandatory.

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COVID fatalities drop to single digit; new cases dip to 5K

Daily COVID-19 fatalities fell to single digits, after we reported 5 deaths yesterday.

4 of them were classified as brought in dead cases.

Selangor recorded the most fatalities, while Sabah and Sarawak had one each.

This, as new infections dropped to 5,899, which is over a thousand cases less than the previous day’s tally.

Meanwhile, recoveries stood at some 8,000.