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Covid-19: 2,720 new cases, eight fatalities bring death toll to 983

Covid-19: 2,720 new cases, eight fatalities bring death toll to 983
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Covid-19: Allowing home quarantine has eased overcapacity in hospitals, says Health DG

PUTRAJAYA: Allowing low-risk Covid-19 patients to undergo home quarantine has helped ease overcapacity in hospitals, says the Health Ministry. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said bed occupancies at hospitals and Covid-19 quarantine centres have generally dropped in the first two weeks of the month. “In the first week of February, 28,412 Covid-19 patients have been approved to undergo isolation at home. “In the second week, 19,800 patients were under home quarantine. “I believe this has helped ease overcapacity at our hospitals and quarantine centres. “The bed occupancy for Covid-19 patients at hospitals has dropped to 47%. At quarantine centres, it has dropped to 37%.

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Neighbourly concern

WHAT happens when foreign workers have to undergo mandatory home quarantine? The lack of a proper monitoring system as well as their poor living conditions came to light in Taman Desa, Kuala Lumpur. It all started when several foreign workers who tested positive for Covid-19 at a construction site in the neighbourhood were moved to a health facility. Their housemates who tested negative were ordered to undergo mandatory quarantine at home. However, when they ran out of food supplies before the two-week period ended, some of the quarantined workers went out to buy food at a local supermarket and were spotted by a resident.

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