Vaccinated travellers not exempt from mandatory quarantine - Health DG

COVID-19 | Travellers who have received the Covid-19 vaccine are not exempt from complying with the prescribed infection prevention measures, including undergoing mandatory quarantine, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

He said the Health Ministry (MOH) on March 12 had decided that risk assessments should be carried out on travellers who had received complete Covid-19 immunisation, while the World Health Organisation (WHO) had also not recommended that the vaccination could be used as an "immunity passport" for travel purposes.

Noor Hisham (above) said although countries with access