Health Ministry says govt not keen to implement MCO for a long period

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PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has hinted that the current movement control order (MCO) will end, followed by three months of conditional MCO.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the government is not keen to implement the MCO for a long period due to the livelihoods it could affect.

“If we implement the MCO for four weeks until early February, and then followed by a conditional MCO for three months, we hope we can reduce the number of Covid-19 cases to double figures, ” said Dr Noor Hisham, at a virtual press conference on Monday .More to come

 

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But keep interstate travel blocked. This is a huge problem if trying to contain this virus.

Very certain the current Rt, how many people one infected person infects, is below 1. The number of cases could be reduced to 2000 before mid Feb. However, once MCO is lifted, Rt might go back to 1.1 like in Nov last year. If so, the cases would be 3000 at the end of Feb.

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Solution: end MCO. Open up with strict SOPs. WFH should be mandatory for those who can. Ramp up digital infra for online schooling of Standard 1 - Form 3. Online schooling is the way forward for now. Limit public crowding depending on space capacity. Heavy policing enforce SOP.

Kkm kata tak, MKN kata atas nasihat KKM lanjutkan PKP .. main tolak2 jer

Exactly. We need to think of other methods to face this pandemic. We tried lockdown and it failed miserably. DG should resign and let other experts to take the lead.

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