PETALING JAYA: Government hospitals are running out of beds at intensive care units (ICU) to treat Covid-19 patients due to the high number of people falling critically ill because of the disease, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
PETALING JAYA: Government hospitals are running out of beds at intensive care units (ICU) to treat Covid-19 patients as the number of people falling critically ill because of the virus escalates, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry will study if the 14-day mandatory quarantine period for Malaysians arriving from India should be extended to 21 days, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The Health director-general said this after the 132 people who were brought back from India on May 12 on a special repatriation mission have had their quarantine period extended for 21 days after seven of them tested positive for Covid-19.
The seven who tested positive did not show any symptoms. The ministry will carry out an immediate risk evaluation to determine if the 14-day mandatory quarantine period of Malaysians arriving from India should be extended to 21 days, he said.
PETALING JAYA: An individual who was detected with the Indian Covid-19 variant (B.1.617) in the country only tested positive for the virus two weeks after arriving here from overseas, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The Health director-general said that the individual, who eventually died of the disease, had arrived in Malaysia on April 7.
Tests conducted on the individual, who is a non-citizen, on April 7 and 12 were negative, said Dr Noor Hisham.
“He was reported to be positive on April 21 when he was brought to the Emergency Department when he was experiencing serious Covid-19 symptoms. His health deteriorated and he died on May 1, ” Dr Noor Hisham said in a Facebook post on Wednesday (May 12) night.
PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has identified 20 new Covid-19 clusters, taking the number of active ones up to 411.
In his daily Covid-19 update on Wednesday (May 5), Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said eight of the clusters were outbreaks at workplaces, while six others were community outbreaks.
Four clusters are linked to the education sector, while two are related to religious events.
The Persiaran Setia Prima cluster is an outbreak related to two schools in Shah Alam.
“The positive cases under this cluster were first detected on April 5 from a targeted screening exercise conducted on 271 students and staff of the two schools.