{"id":14781,"date":"2022-09-03T13:40:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T05:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14781"},"modified":"2022-09-03T13:40:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T05:40:31","slug":"moh-will-make-announcement-on-face-mask-mandate-very-soon-khairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14781","title":{"rendered":"MOH will make announcement on face mask mandate very soon – Khairy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 3<\/strong> —\u00a0An announcement\u00a0on whether the face mask mandate for enclosed spaces is to be withdrawn will be made very soon, Health Minister\u00a0Khairy Jamaluddin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have already discussed it internally,\u00a0more or less we know what the decision is. Give me a few days,\u201d<\/em> he told a media conference after the launch of the National Innovation and Sandbox Health Technology Hub\u00a0at MRANTI Park here today.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Khairy was responding to the statement by the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) on Wednesday urging the government to review its policy on the mandatory wearing of face masks in enclosed spaces, following a similar decision made by many other countries, including Singapore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MMA president Dr Koh Kar Chai said this was because the number of COVID-19 cases in the country had reached a \u201cplateau of sorts\u201d and the number of hospitalisations due to the virus was not high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to this, National Recovery Council chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said a decision on whether to abolish the use of face masks in enclosed spaces would be looked into and decided by the Health Ministry (MoH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Khairy said the MoH is still studying the decision by the United States\u2019 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorise booster shots that target the Omicron BA.5 subvariant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MoH had its own technical working group for COVID-19 vaccines which will evaluate data before making its recommendation, Khairy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NMT<\/a> as reported by Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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