The Ministry of Health (MOH) says this is not to prevent health care workers from speaking up, but to encourage them to use proper feedback and complaint channels.
The Malaysian Medical Association asks the Ministry of Health for minimum RM35 daily remuneration for private general practitioners (GPs) to issue home surveillance orders and to monitor Category 1 and 2 Covid-19 patients at home.
The Academy of Medicine of Malaysia wants the MySejahtera app updated to educate people with comorbidities on how the Covid-19 vaccine relates to their condition.
A new Section 31 imposes maximum six months’ jail, a fine not exceeding RM50,000, or both for any act prescribed to be an offence, even if it is not stated as an offence under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act (Act 342).
Labuan has vaccinated 1,290 people per 100,000 population with their first dose, nearly 42 times higher than Selangor’s 31 people per 100,000 residents.
Defence and security personnel are listed as frontline workers because they can be mobilised at any time to “high risk areas”, says the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force.
About 40-50% of Covid-19 patients in Malaysia are asymptomatic upon testing positive; half of these are truly asymptomatic throughout the course of disease, says Dr Lee Heng Gee.