MOH wants CMCO to be further tightened to curb spread of Covid-19

: The Ministry of Health has proposed that the Conditional Movement Control Order enforced in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Selangor and Sabah to be further tightened to curb the spread of Covid-19.

“... we tighten it and allow for the economic sector only,” he said at a media conference on the latest Covid-19 developments here today.The MKN decided to enforce the CMCO in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Selangor for 14 days from Oct 14-27 and for Sabah from Oct 12-26. Meanwhile, Dr Noor Hisham said that the standard operating procedure stipulated for prisons needed to be reviewed to ensure infections there could be reduced.Asked if the D614G mutation of the virus was detected in the clusters in Selangor, he said the studies conducted by the Institute of Medical Research would require one to two weeks to identify that.

He explained that the mutation of the virus caused a high level of infectivity, thus increasing the risk of widespread infection.

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