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Same battle, different day. In the fight against the coronavirus, Malaysian Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah is now asking for asymptomatic patients to isolate themselves at home instead of the hospital.
Earlier, all patients who tested positive were taken to the hospital but the strategy had to be changed considering the high number of cases. Logistics issues are now coming into the picture as they have to fetch the patients to hospitals. Malaysia used to send patients regardless of their symptoms to one of 27 hospitals arranged for isolation, but with over 20,000 active cases it just seems a little impossible.
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“We are talking about more than 1,000 cases a day and foreign workers have no place to be isolated”, Dr. Noor Hisham explained.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) is also increasing bed capacity in preparation for a projection that the daily number of cases might reach 5,000 by the end of February 2021.
This definitely does not sound good.
Please stay home as much as possible and remember that we’ve not won the battle just yet.
If you’re showing any symptoms or have been in close contact with someone who tested positive, please isolate yourself.
By: Piravina Ragunathan
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