The Malaysian Insight

THE MySejahtera Covid-19 tracing app will no longer flag users if they are a casual contact as of today, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said.

In a tweet today, the minister said users will instead receive a reminder from MySejahtera to monitor and test themselves for Covid-19 if they are symptoms.

“Previously when the app detected that you were exposed to a positive case, your risk status will change to casual contact (yellow).

“From today, your risk status will no longer change. You will get a notification instead. If you have symptoms, isolate and test,” he said. 

Khairy added that close contacts who have received their Covid-19 boosters and are not symptomatic are no longer required to isolate.

However, they are still required to take a test on the first and third days thereafter. 

Since the pandemic began, Malaysia has logged 3.44 million cases and 32,749 deaths. – March 1, 2022.