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Personnel from the Health Ministry and Malaysia Civil Defence Department (JPAM) conducting checks to ensure every resident at the Tropicana workers’ quarters, which is under the enforced movement control order (EMCO), has completed their Covid-19 screening in this picture taken on October 12, 2020. The workers’ quarters have been sealed off as an EMCO area starting from October 12 to 25 with 500 residents affected as a new cluster of Covid-19 infection has been recorded from the area since October 10.— Picture by BERNAMA

Health DG invites former Covid-19 patients to join medical research

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 — Malaysians who have previously been infected with the Covid-19 virus are invited to participate in a longitudinal study on the response of neutralising antibodies among Covid-19 patients in the country.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the study was conducted by a group of researchers from the Ministry of Health’s Institute of Medical Research (IMR).

“This study is important to know the level of neutralising antibodies (immunity) in the blood that can prevent the Covid-19 virus from infecting patients who have been infected before.

“This research has been approved by the MOH Medical Research Ethics Committee (MREC),” he said via Facebook, adding that further on the matter could be obtained from Dr Rafiza Shaharudin via email at [email protected] or phone at 03-33627753; and Dr Masita Arip ([email protected] or 03- 33627735.

 

— Bernama

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