The National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) today asked Senior Education Minister Mohd Radzi Md Jidin to give quarantine leave to teachers who are close contacts of a Covid-19 positive case.

NUTP secretary-general Harry Tan Huat Hock said close contact teachers had to take special leave before receiving a quarantine letter from the District Health Office.

He said the process of obtaining a quarantine letter from the health office would take time due to the increase in Covid-19 cases in the country...