Starting Friday, Malaysia Will Stop Temperature Checks If You Want To Enter Public Places

JAKARTA - The Malaysian government starting Friday, February 11, will revoke the rules for checking body temperature and check-in logs that have been in place when someone enters certain places to detect the transmission of COVID-19.

"It is also important for me to convey, taking the view of the Malaysian Ministry of Health, today's meeting of four ministers also determined that the SOP for checking body temperature will be revoked," said Malaysian Defense Minister Hishamuddin Hussein in Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday, February 8, quoted from Antara.

With the revocation, he said, the business owners are no longer required to provide temperature measuring devices and check-in logs at the entrances to their respective locations. However, checking in using the MySejahtera application is still required to be used.

"However, if the owners of business premises still want to continue implementing the SOP for temperature checks and check-in logs, the government is very supportive and encourages it," he said.

On the same occasion, he said on January 3 this year all states in Malaysia had switched to the fourth phase of the State Recovery Program (PPN). Thus, the next step is to move to a transitional phase towards endemic.

"The government realizes that recently many parties have begun to hesitate, following the wave of transmission of the Omicron variant and the increase in the daily number of COVID-19 cases. However, we must not cancel plans to move to the next phase," he said.

According to the Malaysian Ministry of Health (KKM) report, although the number of daily cases continues to increase, the number of patients treated in hospitals and in the ICU is low.

"This shows the country's health system is in a state of control, as stated by the Minister of Health last night," he said.

He said the development was important. In order to carry out the transition phase to endemic to the state health system, in particular, the occupancy of beds in hospital rooms and ICUs must continue to be at controlled levels or in the sense of not being burdened.