{"id":81154,"date":"2020-06-29T18:45:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T10:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=81154"},"modified":"2020-06-29T18:59:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T10:59:26","slug":"msians-foreign-travellers-to-bear-covid-19-screening-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=81154","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;sians, foreign travellers to bear COVID-19 screening cost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia), June 29 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Beginning today,  Malaysians and foreigners entering the country will have to bear the cost of\u00a0COVID-19 tests which are conducted upon\u00a0their arrival, said Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Ismail Sabri Yaakob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, however, three categories of individuals including differently-abled people (OKU) carrying the OKU card issued by the Social Welfare Department (JKM) would be exempted from paying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other two categories which need not pay for the tests are government officers&nbsp;returning from official duty&nbsp;and students coming back for the first time, with proof of their studies, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnyone in these three categories who have paid for their screening before this&nbsp;decision on fee waiver was made can claim for a refund from the Health Ministry (MOH),\u201d he told a press conference here Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported that the COVID-19 tests for&nbsp;returning Malaysians cost between US$7 (RM30) and US$35 (RM150) each while the charge for foreigners is between US$14 (RM60) and US$58.33 (RM250).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia), June 29 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Beginning today, Malaysians and foreigners entering the country will have to bear the cost of\u00a0COVID-19 tests which are conducted upon\u00a0their arrival, said Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Ismail Sabri Yaakob. He said, however, three categories of individuals including differently-abled people (OKU) carrying the OKU card issued by the Social Welfare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":71098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}