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Are you the type of person to worry of your MySejahtera health status all the time? Well, don&rsquo;t think about it too much as there is now an update with the app which involves the risk status of individuals.
Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin had announced that our health status risk will no longer change to casual contact starting 1st March 2022. Rather than displaying it on your profile, the app will send you a notification informing you on that you have been identified as a casual contact and the app will remind you to monitor yourself and conduct a Covid-19 self-test if you have any symptoms.
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Previously when MySJ Trace/Check-Ins detected that you were exposed to a +ve 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. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TRIIS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TRIIS</a> <a href="https://t.co/QdRED1RU3Y">pic.twitter.com/QdRED1RU3Y</a>
&mdash; Khairy Jamaluddin 🇲🇾🌺 (@Khairykj) <a href="https://twitter.com/Khairykj/status/1498486122816880640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2022</a></blockquote>

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Before this, the moment MySejahtera detects that you&rsquo;ve been exposed to an area with a Covid-19 positive case, your status will turn to yellow for Casual Contact without symptoms. Users will need to answer a questionnaire on their health condition before the app turns it back to the blue Low Risk No Symptoms status.
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MySejahtera currently does not have a feature which reveals the location of the exposure (similar to S. Korea&rsquo;s contact tracing app). If you have been marked as a casual contact before the 1st of March, the status will remain there until you have finish answering the required daily questionnaire.
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Who can enter premises?
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A thing to note is that casual contacts are people who are considered to be low risk and they are not restricted to going out and do not require to do a test. However, there have been incidents where premises had refused entry to individuals with casual contact status as there was confusion within the management.
A good example was set by 1 Utama as they had showed and educated their visitors on which status is allowed entry into their mall.
Updates in protocol
The MoH has gradually been updating protocols to make life easier for everyone despite the rise of the Omicron variant. Although we record an average of 20,000 cases a day, most of the cases are all those with less severe, mild or even no symptom which results in most Malaysians being home quarantined.
Another SOP which has changed is that 1st March 2022 onwards marks the new SOP that close contacts who receive their boosters and don&rsquo;t have any symptoms will no longer require isolation at home but to only conduct a RTK self-test on Day 1 and 3.
Read: <a href="https://myc.com.my/articles/1020/mysejahtera-requires-photo-proof-of-covid-19-self-test-results">MySejahtera Requires Photo Proof Of Covid-19 Self-Test Results</a>
Individuals who have been boosted (with symptoms) and individuals who have not been boosted (with and without symptoms) will be required to isolate via the Home Surveillance Order.
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As of the current guidelines, those who need to be quarantine will undergo 7 days of quarantine if you&rsquo;re boosted or not and 10 days if you haven&rsquo;t completed all your doses
Right now, the Ministry of Health is urging senior citizens (adults aged 60 and above of all vaccine types) and Sinovac recipients (adults aged 18 years and above) to get their booster shots by 31st March 2022 to retain their fully vaccinated status.
Malaysia is currently recommending individuals to get Pfizer or AstraZeneca as the data shows that these two vaccines provide a greater protection from the virus compared to the Sinovac booster. However, if you still insist on getting a Sinovac booster, recipients can get it at their nearest offsite PPV under ProtectHealth.
Its good that our government is taking the endemic approach and also sometimes by not seeing that we are marked as a casual contact because it can cause unnecessary stress to some individuals and may lead to over thinking. 
Do you like the approach that the government is taking? Let us know in the comments!
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*Sources: Visual and Reference Credits to Social Media, KKM, SoyaCincau &amp; various cross references for context.
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Instead of your status changing, you’ll now be informed via notification to monitor your health.

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MySejahtera No Longer Shows Yellow Casual Contact Status Starting 1 March

MySejahtera No Longer Shows Yellow Casual Contact Status Starting 1 March

Instead of your status changing, you’ll now be informed via notification to monitor your health.

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