{"id":162418,"date":"2022-02-09T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T11:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=162418"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:43:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T11:43:50","slug":"no-more-mandatory-temperature-scans-logbook-check-ins-from-friday-hishammuddin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=162418","title":{"rendered":"No more mandatory temperature scans, logbook check-ins from Friday &#8211;   Hishammuddin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Wahida Fitriah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 9 February 2022: Temperature scans and check-ins in the form of logbook registrations before entering premises will no longer be mandatory from Friday  (11 February), the Defence Minister announced today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Malay Mail<\/em> reported that Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, however, said that check-ins via the MySejahtera app are still mandatory for the purposes  of COVID-19 contact tracing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153However, if premise owners still wish to continue practising the standard operating procedures (SOP) for temperature inspection and logbook registrations, the government both welcomes and encourages it,\u009d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin announced that mandatory  temperature screening for entry into premises would be excluded as part of COVID-19 standard operating procedures (SOP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said the ministry would be proposing another amendment to the\n SOPs to do away with the use of logbooks as an option for visitors to \nregister when they enter a location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, the Malaysia Shopping Mall Association lamented that the use of  logbooks to safeguard mall patrons was a futile effort because it had resulted in some being unwittingly penalised by authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The association had said that some malls did not use the logbooks as they provided a loophole for unverified shoppers to gain entry into the premises without having to prove their health status.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source:<\/em> <em>Malay Mail<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wahida Fitriah KUALA LUMPUR, 9 February 2022: Temperature scans and check-ins in the form of logbook registrations before entering premises will no longer be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":162419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,8,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,156,180],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo_2022-02-09_16-17-58.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162421,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162418\/revisions\/162421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}