Covid-19 weekly round-up: Local transmissions, clusters need to be brought under control, says Dr Noor Hisham | Malay Mail

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a media statement today that the seven local transmissions involved five Malaysians and two non-citizens. — Bernama pic

As of July 28, five close contacts of the index case were screened and tested positive. Four of them, all non-citizens, were his restaurant workers while the fifth person was a member of his family. On the fatality reported today, Dr Noor Hisham said the patient was a 64-year-old Filipino who also had heart disease.Double-digit new cases involving local transmissions, as well as new clusters have continued to emerge this week, much to the consternation of the health authorities that expected Malaysia to record zero new Covid-19 cases by mid-July.

“The new clusters are like embers, and if we don’t comply with the SOP, it’s like we are the fuel. So, when fuel mixes with embers it will cause a huge blaze and a sudden spike in cases,” he said at a Covid-19 media briefing on Monday. At a press conference last week, Dr Noor Hisham had said that the R-naught — the reproductive number which is an indicator of how contagious a disease is, or how easily it spreads from person to person — has increased from 0.3 during the movement control order to 1.36 now.WHO and global situation

“When I declared a public health emergency of international concern on January 30 — the highest level of alarm under international law — there were less than 100 cases outside of China, and no deaths. Over the last six weeks alone, the total number of cases has increased two-fold,” he said. Brazil is on the second spot with 2,613,789 cases and 91,377 fatalities. India is on the third spot with 1,639,350 cases and 35,786 deaths. Russia is fourth with 834,499 cases and 13,802 deaths.

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome .

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