'New SOP for frontliners' children to manage transmission risks, not discriminatory'

CORONAVIRUS | Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has stressed that there is no element of discrimination in the new proposed guideline for children of healthcare frontliners to remain at home or be placed separately from other children at taska (childcare centres and nurseries).

“About taska, it is not because we discriminate – we do not discriminate in treating. What we see is risk and there are two groups who are high-risk, one is the families of positive cases and the second is Health Ministry frontliners...