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KUCHING, May 31 Many of the standard operating procedures (SOPs) in Sarawak during this movement control order (MCO) are far more stringent than those under the federal government’s total lockdown, said Datuk Seri Dr Sim Kui Hian. In a Facebook post today, the State Disaster Management. ....
The Covid-19 low-risk quarantine and treatment centre set up at the hostels of the Youth and Sports Complex in Kuching.- ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE/The Star KUCHING: The Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) and quarantine centre here still has room for Covid-19 patients despite rising admissions over the past month, says Datuk Seri Dr Sim Kui Hian. The state Local Government and Housing Minister said the average bed occupancy in SGH’s Covid ward was about 74% in epidemic week 16 from April 19 to 25, which saw an average of 69 admissions per day. In the same period, occupancy of ventilated beds in critical care for Covid-19 and high-risk severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) cases and patients under investigation (PUI) averaged 81% while the low-risk quarantine and treatment centre had 79% average occupancy. ....
KUALA LUMPUR – The country is expected to need a year to achieve herd immunity for the coronavirus through the National COVID-19 Immunisation Plan, one of the largest vaccination programmes in Malaysia. Scientist Ts. Dr Ummirul Mukmimin Kahar from the Malaysian Genome Institute, National Institutes of Biotechnology Malaysia (NIBM) said that to achieve herd immunity, 80 per cent of the population needs to be vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine. Advertisement Malaysia is expected to receive the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech by the end of February with frontline staff being among early recipients of the vaccine. “After February, the COVID-19 National Immunisation programme will become one of the largest vaccination exercise in Malaysia. The administration of the vaccine will be implemented in three phases and will run until February 2022,” he told Bernama in a special interview via Zoom here, today. ....
Monday, 08 Feb 2021 08:21 PM MYT State Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Seri Dr Sim Kui Hian speaks during a media briefing in Kuching May 14, 2020. Picture courtesy of Sarawak Public Communications Unit (Ukas) Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. SIBU, Feb 8 The genome sequencing analysis of Covid-19 shows that the variant infecting Sarawakians now is different from the one detected in March to April last year, said Sarawak Local Government and Housing Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Sim Kui Hian. The initial infection was of the Wuhan strain but when the Stutong Cluster and Keranji Tabuan Cluster emerged last month, the genome sequencing analysis done by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) showed the new strain being similar to the ones found in Indonesian and the United Kingdom (UK). ....
SIBU: The genome sequencing analysis of Covid-19 shows that the variant infecting Sarawakians now is different from the one detected in March to April. ....