{"id":164863,"date":"2022-04-26T16:43:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=164863"},"modified":"2022-04-26T16:54:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:54:16","slug":"sops-relaxations-awaiting-cabinet-approval-khairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=164863","title":{"rendered":"SOPs relaxations awaiting Cabinet approval &#8211; Khairy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Wan Nurul Atiqah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BANGI, 26 April 2022: The Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin wants to make sure that the relaxation of certain COVID-19 prevention standard operating procedures (SOP) can be done safely and without jeopardising people&#8217;s safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>New Straits Times <\/em>reported that Khairy wished to appropriately manage the issue and avoid making the wrong judgement on the relaxation of the SOPs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The ministry has been deliberating the matter at great length. We do not want to make mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to manage the situation properly including ensuring that (new COVID-19) cases will continue to register a declining trend and that our hospitals are not under enormous pressure (following the relaxation to the SOPs),&#8221; said Khairy in yesterdays press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khairy was asked about the SOPs&#8217; relaxation, which the Ministry plans to announce on Wednesday (April 27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We want to ensure that the relaxation to the SOPs is safe and careful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, based on this spirit, I will present the matter for approval from the Cabinet on Wednesday. If the Cabinet gives their approval, I will announce it the same day,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khairy has also informed Prime Minister, Dato&#8217; Sri Ismail Sabri Yaakob of its plans related to the relaxation of the SOPs and will make further announcements this Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On other matters, Khairy said 1,939 doses of the second COVID-19 booster shot had been administered to date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Most of the recipients of the second booster shots received the injections on a walk-in basis from their general practitioners and they are senior citizens with comorbidities,&#8221; he said.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em> Source: New Straits Time<\/em>s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wan Nurul Atiqah BANGI, 26 April 2022: The Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin wants to make sure that the relaxation of certain COVID-19 prevention standard&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5676,"featured_media":164864,"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":[156,12,5676],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Capture-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164863"}],"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=164863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164884,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164863\/revisions\/164884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}