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KUALA LUMPUR: Director General of Health Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah (pix) has called on all parties, including people who have received the Covid-19 vaccine, to continue to adhere to standard operating procedures (SOPs) in place to slow the spread of the deadly virus until herd immunity is achieved.
He said that adherence to the SOP and measures to ensure public health should continue despite the fact that Phase 1 of the National Covid-19 Immunization Program is underway.
Phase 1 of the immunization program began on February 24 and is expected to involve 30,000 frontline workers across the country.
Dr Noor Hisham said that the measures put in place to curb the spread of the pandemic, including international border control, the application of various SOPs, as well as Covid-19 testing and detection activities, would be evaluated and discussed from time to time. from time to time in the National Security Council (MKN) special meeting.
“The decision to allow inter-state or inter-district travel, for example, depends on the government’s evaluation of some of these factors.
“Among the key indicators to evaluate in this risk assessment are the current situation of daily Covid-19 cases; current trends and values of R-Nada (Rt); trends and current situation of fatalities due to the pandemic, as well as the current capacity of beds used for patients with Covid-19, “he said in a statement on the development of Covid-19, here, today.
He said that the current infection situation among health personnel and the laboratory tests and surveillance of Covid-19 would also be among the indicators to evaluate.
Earlier, Dr. Noor Hisham was reported to have said the Health Ministry would consider easing restrictions on inter-state and inter-district travel if 70 to 80 percent of people had been inoculated with the Covid-19 vaccine. -Called
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