Wednesday, 09 Jun 2021 04:31 PM MYT
BY R. LOHESWAR
Royal Malaysian Army personnel arranging a bed in the Field ICU to combat the surge of Covid-19 cases at Kepala Batas Hospital, May 21, 2021. Picture by Sayuti Zainudin
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 Covid-19 patients occupying beds in the intensive care units (ICU) of government hospitals nationwide have dropped to around 90 per cent today, according to Health Minister Datuk Dr Adham Baba.
Dr Adham said for the Epidemiology week 22 (ME-22), there has been an overall 2.6 per cent reduction in Covid-19 cases to 52,040.
Wednesday, 09 Jun 2021 08:25 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah gives a press conference on Covid-19 at the Health Ministry in Putrajaya, January 4, 2021. Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 The Ministry of Health will be setting up a call centre to help Covid-19 assessment centres (CAC) cope with the drastic increase in workload as cases continue to grow, following situations where phone calls by patients to overwhelmed CAC went unanswered.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah noted that the drastic increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia since April has caused the workload of CAC personnel to increase at more than 100 per cent.
09 Jun 2021 / 21:37 H.
KUALA
LUMPUR: The Ministry of Health is in the process of setting up a call centre to improve the monitoring process by the Covid-19 Assessment Centre (CAC), says Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (
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He said the call centre would receive calls from patients with symptoms to be channeled to the relevant CAC, as well as receive calls related to general inquiries on the Home Surveillance Order (HSO) and redirecting emergency calls to MERS 999 (Malaysia Emergency Response Services).
“For a start, it will be implemented in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya which have a high caseload. Apart from that, the MOH will also add telephone lines at 33 CACs in the three states, to reduce call congestion,“ he said in a statement today.
PETALING JAYA: The infectivity rate (R-nought or R0) of Covid-19 in the country has dipped below 1.0 during the first week of the lockdown, recording 0.99 on June 6, down from 1.07 on June 1.
On Twitter, health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah shared data showing that the number of Covid-19 cases recorded daily had significantly reduced, after it peaked at 9,020 on May 29 when the infectivity rate was at 1.16.
However, the number of cases remain above 6,000 with 6,241 cases on June 6, with 2,178 cases recorded in Selangor alone.
The Health Ministry also forecast that new cases would have gone above 10,000 if the national infectivity rate rose above 1.2 and standard operating procedures were not followed.