Sabah allows children with vaccinated adults to attend prayers at non-Muslim religious houses

 By Olivia Miwil - October 15, 2021 @ 11:15pm

State Covid-19 spokesman Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun said the capacity would be increased from 30 per cent to 50 per cent. The rule applies to vaccinated people. -NSTP file pic

State Covid-19 spokesman Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun said the capacity would be increased from 30 per cent to 50 per cent. The rule applies to vaccinated people. -NSTP file pic

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah government has allowed more people to be at non-Muslim places of worship starting today.

State Covid-19 spokesman Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun said the capacity would be increased from 30 per cent to 50 per cent. The rule applies to vaccinated people.

Among activities allowed are blessings, marriages, baptisms and classes.

The relaxation of restrictions also allows for children under age 12 to attend the prayers, between 6am and 10pm, provided they are accompanied by their vaccinated parents.

They also have to follow the standard operating procedures (SOP) on temperature screening, sanitising, checking-in via MySejahtera and the wearing of face masks, as well as social distancing.

As for the updates on child day care centres SOP, the capacity remains at 50 per cent but operational hours are extended to 8pm from 6pm previously.

Today, Sabah recorded 720 Covid-19 cases with five deaths.

More than half of those cases (410) involve fully vaccinated people, 38 with only one dose of vaccine, 169 are children under 12, and 103 are non-vaccinated.

Meanwhile, Sabah Immunisation Task Force director Datuk Shahelmey Yahya said the state Health Department would execute vaccine boosters after fine tuning the implementation process.

"The Sabah Health Department director will inform us when it is ready to be implemented," he said after extending appreciation to staff at the Dewan Sri Putatan vaccination centre near here.

Shahelmey, who is Sabah community development and people's wellbeing minister, was referring to the Health Ministry's approval of a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine for frontliners who had received vaccines for at least six months and other vulnerable groups.

As of yesterday, 1,972,565 or 71.5 per cent of the adult population have completed their vaccines.

Shahelmey said 16 out of 224 vaccination centres would remain open until the state achieves herd immunity next month.


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