A study linking higher levels of government and interpersonal trust, and less government corruption, to fewer Covid-19 infections finds that Malaysia has high trust in the government, but more government corruption and less trust in other people.
Parents staying in the Klang Valley must update MySejahtera and register their children aged 5 to under 12 years as dependents, before receiving a link to book Covid vaccination for their kids.
The College of Paediatrics, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, says children infected with Omicron have a 20% higher risk of hospitalisation than with Delta.
An mRNA Covid-19 booster dose is 90% effective against hospitalisation and cuts the odds of an emergency room visit by 82%, according to a US CDC study.
“Retrospectively, revisiting all these issues, I have no qualms to say that we could have surely done better,” says former health minister Dzulkefly Ahmad.
At the 150th WHO executive board meeting, Khairy Jamaluddin also warns the world against assuming that “letting Omicron rip” will bring an endgame to the Covid-19 pandemic without much death and damage.
A doctor was charged with abetment by conspiracy to cheat for allegedly submitting false information to the National Immunisation Registry about administering Covid vaccines when he had not.