MALAYSIA has been carefully monitoring and containing cases of the Covid-19 since it was first discovered on Jan 25.
But the number of cases spiralled after a case, which was initially thought as a sporadic case, was traced to a religious mass gathering that had 16,000 participants.
The surveillance is to detect infected persons who had neither travelled to affected areas or countries nor had close contact with a confirmed case. From those examined, 137 were referred to hospitals for further management, while 2,932 were placed under 14-day home surveillance from the date they last join the gathering.
If there is no sporadic case in Malaysia, it is an indication that the infection has not gone into the community. That means the infection at the gathering is likely to have been brought in from outside. This is an important factor to consider. Can the health authority trace if the infection had come from Singapore or other countries and consider a short-term travel ban against those countries?
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