Bangi MP Ong Kian Ming says the health ministry should provide detailed information on the location history of positive Covid-19 cases.
Less than a week ago, Dr Narimah Awin, former director of the health ministry’s family health development division, said during a webinar that Malaysians deserved more information than the daily numbers and clusters announced by health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah every day. Research from different countries has revealed that about 80% of infections are caused by less than 20% of patients, which shows that many do not pass the virus on, but those who do tend to infect multiple others at once.
“This is particularly important when our contact tracers are outnumbered by the daily number of cases, and can’t reach the close contacts in time,” he said. “There’s data, and there’s data, if you know what I mean. You can’t take any number at face value, you have to also know how the information was collected and how the number has been generated.”
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