The Health Director-General, Datuk Dr. Noor Hisham disclosed yesterday (May 27) that according to the latest data from World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that the virus infection rate of COVID-19 patients equal to zero after 14 days of treatment in hospital. Therefore, the Ministry of Health (MoH) will be readjusting the Standard Operation Procedures (SOP) of treating the COVID-19 patients in Malaysia. MoH will be allowing COVID-19 patients to discharge, even if they are tested positive after 14 days of treatment.

He further disclosed that the hospital will be testing the COVID-19 patients on the 13th day of their treatment within 24 hours twice and patients will only be granted permission to discharge if their results came back negative before this.

  
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But looking at the latest data of WHO that shows that the virus is really weak after 14 days of treatment and that its infection rate is lower drastically or equals to zero, hospitals now will be allowing the patients to discharge even if they are tested positive after receiving treatment.

"Malaysia will treat COVID-19 patients for 14 days. Afterward, although the sample is still tested positive, the infection rate is almost zero," he explained, as reported in Sin Chew Daily.

In view of this, although the PCR test can still detect residual virus fragments and the patients are tested positive for COVID-19, they could not infect other people.

So what do you think? Should the government allow these weak positive COVID-19 patients to discharge seeing that the infection rate is almost zero?

News source: Sin Chew Daily

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