Emergency opens more avenues to fight Covid-19: Health DG

The proclamation of emergency to fight Covid-19 has been helpful to the Health Ministry in several ways, according to Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

The Health director-general said that the emergency ordinance has opened up more avenues which were unavailable under the existing Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342).

For one, it allows the government to move around doctors...