{"id":3894,"date":"2020-05-19T22:31:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T14:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2020-05-19T22:31:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T14:31:43","slug":"covid-19-malaysia-still-on-track-for-single-digit-new-cases-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=3894","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Malaysia still on track for single-digit new cases – Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PUTRAJAYA, May 19 – Malaysia is still on track to see new\u00a0COVID-19 cases reduce to single-digits soon, says\u00a0Health director-general Datuk Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still on target based on our\u00a0modeling, but the more important thing\u00a0is that when we look back at the two weeks from the fourth of May until now, certainly the cases (COVID-19) have not increased, however, it\u2019s not also decreasing as fast as we want to, but we are still hanging on.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as we can maintain about 20 cases or even 15 cases, then public health teams can take action into the\u00a0cases we have identified,\u201d he said during the daily press conference on\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0here, today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He added that the Health Ministry (MOH) hopes that\u00a0Malaysia can continue to maintain the number of new\u00a0COVID-19 cases in the double-digits over the next couple of days.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we have been seeing, maintaining these double digits from MCO (Movement Control Order) 3, so the most important is that in terms of the number of\u00a0cases, there\u2019s no sudden increase, a sudden surge of cases into\u00a0three-digits for example,\u201d he said, while urging the public to work together and adhere to the standard operating procedures set by the ministry.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dr. Noor Hisham noted\u00a0that out of the 35 new locally transmitted cases today, 22\u00a0involved foreigners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cSo we are looking at double digits, but lower double-digit numbers, and certainly we have still two active areas that we are looking into, targeted EMCO (Enhanced Movement Control Order) in Pasar Chow Kit as well as a locality in Pudu.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo these two active areas we are looking into it and we are testing a lot of foreigners there, so although its a local transmission, but majority involve the foreigners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr Noor Hisham added\u00a0that Malaysia had\u00a01,436 detainees at the Immigration Detention Centre\u00a0in Kuala Lumpur, and 1,000 of them had been screened for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cOnly the pre-MCO group comprising\u00a0436 detainees\u00a0that we did not screen (remain), and our team (from MOH) have visiting services to the detention centre and to ensure (the COVID-19 screening is carried out),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Noor Hisham said this in response to a report that there were some COVID-19 positive cases detected among Myanmar migrants\u00a0who were deported back to their\u00a0country from Block A of the detention centre in\u00a0Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n

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