D-G: Malaysia’s RMCO based on MOH advice, ‘soft landing’ to balance life and livelihood, prepare for Covid-19 exit strategy
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the RMCO announced by the prime minister today is backed by the Health Ministry. — Picture by Choo Choy May
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah was responding to a question of whether the government’s decision to impose the RMCO was done in consultation with the Health Ministry, and whether the Health Ministry has an adequate strategy to prevent a new wave of Covid-19 cases as seen in South Korea after restrictions were relaxed there.
“And most importantly, although we are allowing the RMCO, the surveillance will continue in terms of action from public health, and more importantly is to identify the cases, so we are doing the surveillance... We hope by doing so, we can give the report every day in terms of any surge in cases in terms of locality or target group,” he said.
“So if we can control locally, then if we succeed on August 31, then probably our plan will come in terms of preparing to ease the restrictions of international borders. Even without a vaccine for Covid-19 being developed yet, Dr Noor Hisham said it was not impossible for Malaysia to break the chain of transmission of the virus, as proven by the country’s success in doing so when it came to other coronaviruses — SARS and the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus — which also had no vaccine.
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