Health Ministry lists criteria for assessing Covid-19 contagion risk

Covid-19 | The Health Ministry has outlined the criteria it uses to assess the risk of Covid-19 transmission in an area to guide its decision-making.

This came a day after the ministry’s director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah told a press conference yesterday that it no longer waits for a district to become a Covid-19 “red zone” before recommending imposing a conditional movement control order (CMCO). Instead, it will base its recommendations on risk assessment...