Following the latest information from the World Health Organisation (WHO), Malaysia will change its Covid-19 treatment protocol and discharge patients after 14 days even if they test positive for the virus.
Patients will then be advised to undergo home quarantine for 14 days.
The reason for this new protocol is because patients have been found to be not infectious two weeks after contracting the virus, Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today.
“According to a WHO report, those who have been infected for more than 14 days will have zero infectivity.
“Therefore, based on this new information, we can discharge patients after 14 days even if they test positive using an RT-PCR test.
“This is the new action we will take based on the latest information. We will change our protocol with regards to positive patients,” he said during his daily briefing this evening.
He added that a positive RT-PCR test result after 14 days was possibly due to the detection of “dead virus” or a “fragment of the virus RNA”.
“But the patient is no longer infectious,” he added.
[More to follow] - Mkini
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