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In his first pc in 2022, health minister Khairy announced that beginning Jan 8, Malaysia temporarily suspending all umrah or Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. This after almost 12% of 11,108 returnees were infected by #Covid_19 contributing to half of 64 #Omicron cases. pic.twitter.com/KcgJIeYulU
— Melissa Goh (@MelGohCNA) January 1, 2022
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1. All umrah trips will be suspended from January 8 until further notice. New flight ticket bookings will also be suspended from today (January 1).
— BFM News (@NewsBFM) January 1, 2022
Those booked to go between January 1 to 7 will still be allowed to go but must quarantine at dedicated facilities upon return. pic.twitter.com/dSzPJ76uB4
3. The Health Ministry also reported 966 cases presumed to be Omicron among travellers between December 21 to 29 2021. Of this, 750 or 77.6% are travellers from Saudi Arabia.
— BFM News (@NewsBFM) January 1, 2022
This is still pending the results of whole genomic sequencing.
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4. 9 clusters have also been linked to umrah pilgrims, 5 of which are confirmed to involve the Omicron variant.
— BFM News (@NewsBFM) January 1, 2022
Another cluster involves a case presumed to be Omicron, which is still pending confirmation. pic.twitter.com/5gy0XSCWTz
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2. Khairy adds that Saudi Arabia has been added to the list of high risk countries.
— BFM News (@NewsBFM) December 25, 2021
Beginning next week all, all individuals returning from Saudi Arabia will be required to wear a digital tracker, to enhance their HSO.
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@IsmailSabri60 ,@Khairykj ,@DGHisham ,@KKMPutrajaya What the hell is happening? Why you have not closed Umrah gate for the year? The numbers are raising and tou have not done anything yet? Trying to get more political mileage thru Omicron??? pic.twitter.com/cDzxgW4p5m
— INDRREN (@Vindhar1) December 31, 2021
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