Malaysia opens its borders on April 1st! All entrants who have completed COVID-19 vaccination are allowed to be exempt from mandatory quarantine.
Malaysian Health Minister Kairi also recently announced the relevant rules for the entry of foreign tourists.
The details include: pre-entry nucleic acids, download of the MySejahtera app, entry declarations, post-entry nucleic acids, and detailed quarantine requirements, and travel SOPs. The Malaysian Ministry of Health also said that foreign citizens who do not follow the regulations may be deported after 24 hours.
Latest entry process details
The key entry process details are as follows:
◼ The following processes must be completed 48 hours before departure:
1. Passengers must download, register and launch the MySejahtera application;
2. Passengers are required to complete the itinerary declaration, including access to vaccination information through the Traveller icon in MySejahtera;
3. Polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detection of nucleic acid detection within 48 hours before entry, and upload the notification and results to MySejahtera;
4. Passengers who have been diagnosed within 6 to 60 days need to notify and upload the results of the professional rapid antigen (RTK-Ag) test two days before departure;
5. For foreign tourists, they need: have COVID-19 and travel insurance, and indicate the address of accommodation in Malaysia (this is only for tourist visa tourists);
6. After transmitting the above information, MySejahtera will display: Passengers who have completed vaccination: Travellers Card, if they have not completed vaccination or are not vaccinated: 5 days of home isolation order;
7. Passengers who do not show the passenger card or the home quarantine order will not be able to continue the trip.
◼ Procedures to be completed within 24 hours of arrival:
1. Passengers will pass through a thermal scanner for fever screening or, if symptomatic, voluntarily inform the medical staff for further examination at the medical counter at the Immigration Department;
2. Asymptomatic passengers will be able to proceed to the immigration counter for the next step of review;
3. Passengers must undergo professional RTK-Ag testing at medical places inside or outside the immigration office within 24 hours, and the test results will be obtained through MySejahtera;
ａ． If the result is positive:
Travellers who have completed vaccination, if they are in the first and second classes (asymptomatic or mild), will be subjected to home isolation at the place of accommodation for a period of 7 days;
However, if they are grade 3 or above (symptoms are severe or require ventilator assistance), they need to be treated at a private COVID-19 Low-Risk Isolation and Treatment Centre (PKRC) and hospital (details of the COVID-19 rating are available in MySejahtera);
ｂ． If the test result is negative:
Passengers who have completed vaccination do not need to be quarantined;
Passengers who have not completed or are not vaccinated will need to quarantine at their accommodation for 5 days and undergo RT-PCR testing on day 4 or professional RTK-Ag on day 5;
If the second COVID-19 test result is positive, they will be subjected to home isolation for a period of 5 days from the date the second sample was taken. If the result is negative, the home isolation order can be lifted.
4. Passengers who have not completed vaccination or are not vaccinated need to be quarantined for 10 days;
◼ Note
Malaysian Health Minister Kairi stressed that if passengers do not undergo a professional RTK-Ag test within 24 hours, their MySejahtera status will turn red, they will not be allowed to enter public places, and more importantly, the person concerned has violated the law and can be deported.
Travellers are required to ensure that the information they provide is true and that false declarations will contravene section 22(d) of the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control Act 1988 and may be punishable under section 24 of the same Act, which, if convicted, may be punishable by a fine, imprisonment or both.
Children under the age of 6 (based on year of birth) are not required to be tested before and after arrival.
Abolish 7 passenger entry procedures
Malaysian Health Minister Kairi announced that in order to coincide with the reopening of the border on April 1, the Malaysian government will abolish seven procedures related to the entry of tourists.
He said at the press conference that the 7 procedures are:
1. List of 18 high-risk countries (UK, USA, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Norway, France, Denmark, India, Canada, Nigeria, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Malawi);
2. Wear a digital tracker;
3. Home isolation application;
4. One-stop Service Center for Business Travelers (OSC)
5. Langkawi International Tourism Bubble;
6. The Ministry of Health's COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) testing counter at Kuala Lumpur International Airport;
7、MyTravelPass;
Carey mentioned that the Ministry of Health acknowledges that passengers who have completed vaccinations against COVID-19, which are on WHO's emergency use list.
Malaysia also accepts vaccines that have been approved for use by regulators in other countries and regions but are not included in the above list, including Zifivax (China, Indonesia, Pakistan), Minhai (China, Indonesia), CoviVac (Cambodia, Russia), Medigen (Taiwan), ZyCoV-D (India), Turkovac (Turkey), and Covifenz (Canada).
He added that the list of vaccines will be updated from time to time.
Malaysia and Singapore are free to move in and out next month
Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabiri and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on the 24th that from April 1, all those who have completed vaccination can freely enter and exit the land checkpoints between Malaysia and Singapore without testing or isolation.
This policy, which does not require isolation and testing, applies to all land checkpoint entrants.