{"id":16786,"date":"2023-04-05T17:17:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=16786"},"modified":"2023-04-05T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T09:17:06","slug":"moh-recommends-education-sector-to-conduct-covid-19-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=16786","title":{"rendered":"MOH recommends education sector to conduct Covid-19 screening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KUALA LUMPUR, April 5<\/strong> —\u00a0The Ministry of Health (MOH) has recommended the education sector to conduct screening on\u00a0students, teachers and staff after 11 of the 18 COVID-19 clusters reported in the seventh epidemiological week 2023 (ME 13\/2023) from March 26 to April 1, were\u00a0education clusters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a statement today said of the total, six clusters involved educational institutions under the Ministry of Education (MOE) involving three colleges, a religious school, a boarding school and a secondary school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the five other clusters involved four non-MOE schools\/colleges\u00a0and one childcare centre.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“The current increase in the number of COVID-19 cases and clusters came about following the re-opening of the school session in mid-March 2023. The increase in cases is also due to active community movements during the last school holiday season,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As such, he said the education sector is advised to perform screening on symptomatic students, teachers and staff before entering the school or institution and conduct RTK-Ag tests on students, teachers and staff in accordance with the COVID-19 testing strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, parents also need to monitor their children’s health and be responsible not to send them to school if they have symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Risk assessments on the spread of COVID-19 in the respective institutions must also be conducted from time to time so that preventive measures can be taken immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Noor Hisham also reminded district health officials that positive cases reported by schools or educational institutions must be investigated and a risk assessment carried out to identify potential transmission risks, apart from performing cleaning, disinfecting and contact tracing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also advised the public to continue practising TRIIS (Trace, Report, Isolate, Inform, and, Seek) to control the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the development of COVID-19 cases, Dr Noor Hisham said the number of patient admissions to health facilities per 100,000 residents increased by 24.1 per cent in ME 13\/2023 compared to ME 12\/2023 bringing the cumulative number of new cases to  5,052,337 and the number of recoveries to 5,004,546.cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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