MOE sets up special committee on Covid-19 to manage risk of virus spreading
CORONAVIRUS | The Education Ministry (MOE) has set up a special committee to focus on curbing the spread of Covid-19 at local universities.
Deputy prime minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail revealed this during a press conference in Putrajaya this morning, where she chaired a Central Disaster Management Committee's high-level meeting on Covid-19 earlier.
She said a total of 20 local public universities have also developed their standard operating procedures (SOP) to prevent the virus spread...
CORONAVIRUS | The Education Ministry (MOE) has set up a special committee to focus on curbing the spread of Covid-19 at local universities.
Deputy prime minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (above) revealed this during a press conference in Putrajaya this morning, where she chaired a Central Disaster Management Committee's high-level meeting on Covid-19 earlier.
She said a total of 20 local public universities have also developed standard operating procedures (SOPs) to prevent the virus from spreading while 17 private higher learning institutions are also reported to have SOPs.
This includes Xiamen University Malaysia which has a high number of students from China, said Wan Azizah.
"To date, all students who have returned from China have gone through medical screenings, and tested negative for Covid-19," she told the conference.
According to Wan Azizah, the committee meeting today also concluded that all China students here have to go through medical screenings for Covid-19, except for those who arrived more than 14 days ago.
She said MOE's Education Malaysia Division has started to screen students according to SOPs that had been agreed upon by the Health Ministry and MOE.
There are about 17,000 China nationals registered as students at tertiary education institutions in the country.
For Malaysian students who are in China, Wan Azizah said an initiative had been taken by the ministry's Education Malaysia Beijing (EMB) to monitor their situation.
"EMB, with the cooperation of Malaysian student associations in China, has developed a Covid-19 Overseas Students Management Dashboard to monitor Malaysian students in China," she said.
Meanwhile, on the second mission to bring back Malaysians from Wuhan, Wan Azizah said they would bring back 75 Malaysians together with their spouses and children.
The flight has been scheduled for Feb 25.
"It is being arranged by the Foreign Ministry, National Disaster Management Agency, and AirAsia."
All of them would be subjected to the same tests for Covid-19 and 14-days quarantine like those brought back in the first mission.
Yesterday, Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah announced the date of the mission but did not specify the number of Malaysians scheduled to follow the rescue initiative.
On Feb 4, 107 Malaysians were flown home from Wuhan, China, via a humanitarian aid mission carried out by the Malaysian government.
They were taken to the Higher Education Leadership Academy in Nilai, Negri Sembilan to undergo 14-day monitoring before being allowed to return home on Feb 18 after the quarantine period expired.
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