Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah told the press on Wednesday that the effectiveness of the conditional MCO will only be known after the 14-day incubation period, which falls on May 18. Read also:
R0, which is pronounced “r-naught”, refers to the infectivity rate of a virus within a community during an outbreak.
“The value of R can go down if the correct preventive measures are continuously implemented within a community.“We need to reduce the value of R to below one for a prolonged period in order to end a pandemic, ” said Dr Noor Hisham. The graph showed that if the ministry’s standard operating procedures are adhered to strictly, the number of daily cases will go down to single digits while the R0 will be less than 0.3.
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