Govt to step up intervention to reduce off-radar Covid-19 deaths

The Health Ministry will include some form of monitoring for Covid-19 patients quarantining at home, as well as other forms of interventions, to reduce the number of patients who die outside of health facilities, otherwise known as brought-in-dead (BID) cases.

Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said Covid-19 patients not under the supervision of the ministry or any health facilities tend to make up a big part of the daily BID cases.

“So, we want to make sure those not under the care of a health facility or their district health office...