Collaborative efforts needed to fight Covid-19, says former health D-G | The Malaysian Insight

Former health director-general Dr Mohamed Ismail Merican says the government needs to do risk-mapping urgently with epidemiological and socioeconomic factors as input, so that high-risk areas can be identified and targeted lockdowns can be carried out. – Pic by Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy, July 17, 2021.

PUTRAJAYA needs to better coordinate and collaborate with various parties to handle the Covid-19 pandemic in the country instead of enacting reactive policies, said former health ministry director-general Dr Mohamed Ismail Merican said. He said that the current lockdown employed by the government has not achieved the desired effect as the number of daily infections continues to trend upwards while the healthcare system crumbles.

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