Sunday, 08 Mar 2020 07:50 PM MYT
He said all the cases were detected and isolated for further treatment and the close contacts of these cases were being identified for investigation and sampling. Close contact tracking activity is being conducted until the cause of this infection can be identified, he said. He said on cases for the second wave , only five were reported from PUI and with history of traveling abroad, while the other cases involved clusters consisting of close contacts and related to one another.
Dr Noor Hisham said the Health Ministry was also conducting a Covid-19 surveillance to detect sporadic and local cases in Malaysia through patients with influenza-like-illness and severe acute respiratory infection that had no history of travelling to countries affected by Covid-19 or contact with Covid-19 positive cases.
The public, he said, should also avoid going to crowded places and to distance themselves at least one metre away when dealing with other individuals.
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