IN VIEW of the spike in the Covid-19 cases in the country, the insurance and takaful industry has taken a proactive step by broadening the eligibility criteria of the Covid-19 Test Fund (CTF) to include all asymptomatic individual/group medical and health insurance/takaful policy/certificate (MHIT) holders in the country.
Asymptomatic patients refer to individuals who may have been infected by the virus but do not have any symptoms of cough, sore throat, flu etc.
All individual/group MHIT policy/certificate holders who are asymptomatic are now eligible to claim from the CTF for the Covid-19 test performed at any authorized labs or medical facility registered with the Ministry of Health (MoH) Malaysia.
Speaking on the expansion of the eligibility criteria, President of the Life Insurance Association of Malaysia (LIAM), Ms Loh Guat Lan said that by liberalizing the criteria, more asymptomatic individuals will come forward to do the test to help curb the spread of the virus.
