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“This is no time to debate over what activities are allowed and what are not. Or what should be allowed and what shouldn’t.
“Let’s do a voluntary lockdown only for a specific two-week period to bring down the curve and help our health authorities to cope with the situation, ” Lee said in a press statement on Sunday (May 9).
The Alliance For Safe Community chairman said this after a dire warning from Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah that complacency in fighting Covid-19 could result in over 5,000 daily infections by the end of this month if no drastic action was taken to curb the spread of the virus.
PUTRAJAYA: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has detected 46 Covid-19 clusters linked to cross-state activities, involving 6,044 cases in the country since.
It can even increase to over 5,000 – maybe 6,000 or even 7,000 cases. It all depends on us to break the chain of infection and take drastic action to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press conference on Saturday (May 8).
He said the current spike in cases was not considered a fourth wave, but a continuation of the third wave, even taking into account the emergence of new virus variants here. It is also too early to depend on vaccination to control Covid-19. People must continue to practise public health measures such as physical distancing, frequently washing their hands and wearing face masks, he said.