AS at July 19, 7,148 Covid-19 patients in Malaysia have succumbed to the virus while the number of infections does not seem to be coming down to pre-Emergency levels.
Although more than 95% of the cases comprise those who are asymptomatic or show mild symptoms, the mounting number of daily deaths is scary.
A total of 153 deaths – the highest in a single day since the start of the pandemic – was recorded on July 18. Over the past 10 days, the fatalities have been between 102 and 129 people.
With patients fighting pneumonia, needing oxygen support or in critical condition with ventilators stretching the limits of frontline medical staff and operating capacities of hospital wards and intensive care units, the figures are set to remain high.
To the relief of foreign job sector, single-shot J&J vaccine being given to migrant workers Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, July 20 In a last minute change of plans, the Ministry of Health and Population on Monday started administering the single-shot Janssen vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson to migrant workers. The decision comes as some relief to the foreign employment sector, which has been hard hit by the pandemic.
Kathmandu Valley residents aged 50 to 54 were also administered the single-shot vaccine from Monday with the 1,534,850 doses of the jab the United States provided in grant assistance through the COVAX facility. The single-shot vaccine is also being given to disabled persons, refugees living in Nepal, and health officials and sanitation workers at health facilities.
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As vaccines run out, ongoing inoculation phase, set for five days, is shortened Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, July 16 The Department of Health Services had decided to run the latest phase of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, which began on Tuesday, for five days. Accordingly, health offices of the three districts of Kathmandu Valley, as well as of others, made an announcement to that effect.
But the vaccines the department supplied to them finished in three days. We had published a notice as per the direction of the department, but now we do not have any more vaccines to administer, Badri Bahadur Khadka, chief of Health Office Kathmandu, told the Post. Only a limited number of doses are left now, which we will administer on Friday.
Vaccinating workers in the various industries and factories should have been a priority.
– SYED DANIAL SYED AZAHAR/ THESUN
NO stone is left unturned or expenses spared in Malaysia’s all-out battle against the Covid-19 pandemic, which has brought the entire world down to its knees.
But in the various measures implemented and more coming out as the authorities running the battle are cracking their heads on what to do next, one glaring factor is missing or hardly taken into account – common sense.
While other measures are prohibitively costly and already costing amounts unprecedented in the nation’s history, including the RM500 billion committed so far in aid packages to cushion the impact on the pandemic on people’s livelihoods, common sense is always available for free.