Past experience with other viruses helped Malaysia manage Covid-19, says Dr Noor Hisham | Malay Mail

Tuesday, 21 Jul 2020 04:36 PM MYT

KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 — Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has attributed the Ministry of Health’s preparedness to combat the Covid-19 pandemic to having managed and handled previous virus outbreaks like Nipah, SARS, MERS-Cov and H1N1. “We started activating our Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre , which coordinates and integrates our preparedness response, with the past experience in managing and handling Nipah virus, SARS, MERS-Cov, H1N1 giving us the preparedness and response protocol,” he said.

Also on the panel was Kerala Minister for Health, Social Justice and Woman and Child Development K.K. Shailaja, who is also known as Shailaja Teacher.

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