Health DG: Covid-19 patients must test negative twice before being discharged


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 15 Apr 2020

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysian Covid-19 patients will only be allowed to leave hospitals after they are truly free of the virus.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Malaysia’s way was different from how it was practised in other countries like the United Kingdom and Italy.

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