As the Health Ministry moves to shorten the quarantine period for some Covid-19 positive healthcare workers to alleviate short-staffing, a coalition of healthcare workers has urged the ministry to reconsider the move and introduce additional safeguards.

The Malaysian Health Coalition (MHC) said this is to prevent Covid-19 cases from turning into healthcare-associated Covid-19 clusters, which would defeat the new policy’s objective of preventing short-staffing and alleviating Covid-19 caseload.

They noted that studies have shown that...