As caseload spikes, MoH mulls hotel or home isolation


Ragananthini Vethasalam

The low-risk quarantine and treatment centre at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park in Serdang can accommodate up to 10,000 patients. There are complaints on social media about the shortages, ranging from staff to sanitiser, there. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Kamal Ariffin, January 12, 2021.

DIRECTOR-GENERAL of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has acknowledged complaints on social media over conditions at the low-risk quarantine and treatment centre (PKRC) at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park (MAEPS) in Serdang.

As these centres reach full capacity, he said the Health Ministry is considering allowing positive cases who can pay, to isolate themselves at hotels, or at home.


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