Ministry encourages companies to test staff for Covid-19 before returning to work

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Noor Hisham says if a company wants to test employees, we welcome them to do so on their own initiative.

This comes after theinvolving an asymptomatic woman from Perak, who was diagnosed with a weak positive infection during a screening activity as part of a requirement by her employer in Johor.

Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the case was discovered due to the company's good practice, which had allowed the health authority to isolate the patient and treat her. "Maybe it was a sporadic case which managed to be detected because a test was conducted before the patient returned to work. This was due to the company and the individual's good level of compliance ," he told a press conference in Putrajaya today.

"The policy of the government today is that if a company wants to do tests on their employees, we welcome them to do so on their own initiative. So we can isolate and treat ," Noor Hisham added. For the record, the current policy employed by the government only requires foreign workers to be tested for Covid-19 before they are allowed to resume work with their companies.

 

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