\u201cAt the same time, foreign\u00a0visitors with valid travel documents\u00a0are also able to\u00a0move in\u00a0and out of the country without applying for MyTravelPass which have been repealed,\u201d<\/em> he told a special media conference at Parliament Building here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said members of the public only need\u00a0to download and activate the MySejahtera application and\u00a0complete the Pre-Departure Form via the Traveller function\u00a0in the MySejahtera application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ismail Sabri said individuals who have been fully vaccinated, do not need to undergo quarantine and they only need to take the COVID-19 real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detection test two days before departing and the professional RTK-Ag test within 24 hours after their arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said this is a compulsory procedure for all Malaysian and foreign travelers who wish to enter Malaysia, as the spread of COVID-19 especially the Omicron wave is still in Malaysia\u00a0and many countries in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to him, the status of other vaccination\u00a0such as not receiving vaccines due to medical reasons and not receiving any vaccinations, details on the procedure would be announced by Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ismail Sabri said the list of detailed standard operating procedures (SOP) at international checkpoints on land and seas would also be issued by the relevant ministries soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the decision to reopen the borders, he said it was based on three basic matters guided by science and the latest facts on COVID-19 compared to the need to open the country\u2019s border as well as giving comfort to travelers and not to make\u00a0their journey difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For countries that still have their borders closed, Ismail Sabri said Malaysians can benefit via the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) as agreed by the Government of Malaysia with the countries involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “For the time being, VTL has been implemented with Singapore\u00a0since last year. As I have announced earlier, VTL would be implemented soon between\u00a0Malaysia-Thailand, Malaysia-Brunei, and\u00a0Malaysia-Indonesia.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n “It is hoped the people would soon benefit from the opening of the country\u2019s borders which be carried out according to the stipulated guidelines for self-safety, the surrounding\u00a0people and the country as a whole,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On March 18, 2020, Malaysia enforced restrictions on all traveling abroad by the people and the entry of tourists into the country to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Oct 7, 2020, the government introduced the MyTravelPass of the Immigration Department which is the application to allow movements in and out of the country by Malaysians and foreigners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Oct 11, 2021, the government allowed inter-state travel and traveling\u00a0abroad without the need for an application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NMT<\/a> as reported by Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 — The borders of the country will be reopened on April…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-21.29.17.png",590,318,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-21.29.17-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-21.29.17-300x162.png",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-21.29.17.png",590,318,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-21.29.17.png",590,318,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-21.29.17.png",590,318,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-21.29.17.png",590,318,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-21.29.17.png",590,318,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-21.29.17.png",590,318,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-21.29.17.png",590,318,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13448,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446\/revisions\/13448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"borders\"](\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-21.29.17.png\")
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