Health DG: Centres needed because 15% did not comply with home quarantine


PUTRAJAYA: Malaysians returning from abroad have to be quarantined at special centres as up to 15% did not comply with home quarantine orders.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pic) said the Health Ministry had found positive cases in Malaysia spread locally by those who came back from overseas.

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