{"id":162790,"date":"2022-02-25T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T10:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=162790"},"modified":"2022-02-25T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T10:48:08","slug":"no-self-quarantine-required-starting-1st-march-for-asymptomatic-boosted-close-contact-says-khairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=162790","title":{"rendered":"No self-quarantine required starting 1st March for asymptomatic boosted close contact, says Khairy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Wan Nurul Atiqah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PUTRAJAYA, 25 February 2022: Starting 1st March, individuals age above 18 years old who are in close contact with COVID-19 patients but have received booster jabs, do not need to undergo a Home Surveillance Order (HSO) if they are asymptomatic on the first day, Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bernama <\/em>reported that Khairy further explained that the individual however has to undergo a self- rapid test kit (RTK) on the first and third day from the last date of exposure to the positive COVID-19 case.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153If the test came back positive, the individual must report the result via the MySejahtera application and undergo self-quarantine and if the results came back negative on both first and third day, the individual can carry on as usual,\u009d Khairy added.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This approach, based on the risk assessment from the Ministry of Health (MOH), found that if the individuals are not symptomatic, the likelihood of their &#8216;virus load&#8217; is low, Khairy told a press conference on COVID-19 development yesterday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u02dcvirus load would likely be reduced in those who have taken booster jabs during this Omicron wave, he added.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current five days isolation period still applies for fully-vaccinated individuals with close contacts and have yet to take a booster jab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khairy also added that MOH found that symptoms can be seen on the third day for individuals who tested positive or contracted the virus during the Omicron wave.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, to check whether any symptoms are exhibited, close contact individuals are required to answer the Health Assessment Tool (HAT) questions via My Sejahtera application.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153This new procedure was based on the risk assessment in a move towards the endemic phase,\u009d said Khairy.***<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Bernama <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wan Nurul Atiqah PUTRAJAYA, 25 February 2022: Starting 1st March, individuals age above 18 years old who are in close contact with COVID-19 patients&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5676,"featured_media":162792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,156,5676],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ptj07-24022022-kkm_2197217_20220224205954.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162790"}],"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\/5676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162807,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162790\/revisions\/162807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}