Cannot let guard down despite fewer Covid-19 infections, says Health D-G
PKNS flats residents waiting to be tested for Covid-19 in Kg Baru, Kuala Lumpur, recently. Malaysia's rate of fatalities to the virus is low compared with other countries, says the Health director-general. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Najjua Zulkefli, April 18, 2020.
THE number of positive Covid-19 cases may be declining, but Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah is not quite ready to signal the end of the war. Malaysia today reported 54 new infections in the last 24 hours as at 12pm, the lowest number of new cases in a day since the movement control order started on March 18.
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