Covid-19: Number of cases to stabilise in a week
January 19, 2021
PUTRAJAYA – The Ministry of Health (MOH) expects the number of COVID-19 daily cases in the country to stabilise at 3,000 within a period of one week.
Health director-general, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said after this period, the ministry would review the need to extend the Movement Control Order (MCO) for another two weeks.
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“The expected number of daily cases a week ago was due to exposure to the virus during the incubation period and now the cases could be detected.
“The cases are increasing although we’ve implemented the MCO 2.0 on Jan 13 but the result has yet to be seen,” he said at the news conference on the developments of COVID-19, here, today.
Published on: Monday, January 18, 2021
By: Bernama
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Kuala Lumpur: Covid-19 patients awaiting a call from the Ministry of Health (MOH) can now report themselves through the ‘MySejahtera’ application.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the application was being upgraded and enhanced to better manage the outbreak, as well as to meet the needs of users in the effort to break the chain of infection in the community.
“They (users) can go to the ‘MySejahtera HelpDesk’ on the homepage of the MySejahtera application and follow the instructions in section G,” he said in a statement today.
Dr Noor Hisham advised members of the public to keep the MySejahtera app updated and utilise its available features. Bernama
MySejahtera users who have been registered as Covid-19 positive cases at the Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) will now receive a notification via SMS and alert on the app.
According to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a recent statement, affected users will be provided with guidance and reminders for self-assessment through the app.
The assessments will be available in the ‘Things to do’ section for 10 consecutive days.
If users report any symptoms through the self-assessment, the information will be relayed to the Covid-19 Assessment Centre and a health officer will contact the user for further evaluation.
PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has detected nine new Covid-19 clusters in the country, bringing the total number of active clusters to 299.
Seven of the new clusters are linked to workplaces located in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Sabah, Pahang and Negri Sembilan - which include construction sites, factories and supermarkets.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a statement Monday (Jan 18) said a new cluster, named the Taman Tasik Sungai Chua cluster, has 60 confirmed cases.
The cluster is discovered from a targeted screening exercise on Jan 18 conducted at a supermarket.
The name refers to the Taman Tasik Sungai Chua residential area in Kajang, Selangor, where the positive cases live.
Malaysia reported today 3,306 newly confirmed Covid-19 cases, which brought the country's cumulative number of individuals infected by the virus to 161,740. Four additional Covid-19-related deaths were reported today.