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PETALING JAYA: It will take about a week for the Health Ministry to determine whether the Conditional Motion Control Order (MCO) in the Klang Valley achieves the intended result of flattening the Covid-19 curve, says Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The Health Director-General said it was still too early to get projections or certainties on whether the conditional MCO in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya could be extended as it will only go into effect on Wednesday (October 14).
“For any public health intervention, we will need a little time to observe the progress, maybe a week to get the data to make the projections. We will monitor closely and update progress from time to time, ”he said during his daily press conference on Tuesday (October 13).
He said that from the previous experience of conditional OLS, they had flattened the Covid-19 curve to one digit or even zero cases.
“We hope that with this, we can achieve a balance between health and the economy,” he said.
As the number of cases in Klang Valley has increased in the last week, the government decided to implement the conditional MCO in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Selangor and Sabah for 14 days, from October 14 to 27.
Under the conditional MCO, all recreational, leisure and cultural activities, pubs and nightclubs, theme parks, recreation centers, indoor playgrounds and cinemas will not be allowed to operate.
Regarding education, all educational institutions, schools, kindergartens, nurseries and nurseries will be closed during the conditional MCO.
However, economic activities will be allowed to operate with a set of standard operating procedures (SOPs).
On those who returned to their kampungs before the conditional OLS went into effect, Dr. Noor Hisham said he hoped they would stay home.
“We are not sure if we are carriers of the virus and we should protect the elderly in the kampung because they would be more affected. It is a collective responsibility to ensure that we do not spread the virus to the kampung, ”he said.
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