27 June 2022
The narrative of "living with Covid" with limited communication on long-term health damage has made many complacent. We need to be familiar with the latest science and evidence and live our lives accordingly.
Tag: Covid-19 variant
18 April 2022
WHO emphasised the need to maintain “robust” genome surveillance systems that will allow countries to track and analyse the two Omicron subvariants.
21 March 2022
BA.2 comprised 27% of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences March 1-17; Malaysia sequenced only 0.3% of nearly 1.2 million Covid-19 cases reported from January to March 17, 2022.
10 January 2022
Fine-tuning the Covid-19 National Task Force is all it takes to face the Omicron threat, protect health care services, prevent our HCWs from burnout, and minimise national morbidity and mortality.
24 December 2021
The latest UK government study shows that the risk of people infected with Omicron being admitted to hospital was 50%-70% less than with Delta.
24 December 2021
The case involves a woman in Kuching with no recent travel history; separately, Indonesia reported Dec 23 three imported Omicron cases from Congo and Malaysia among Indonesian migrant workers.
24 December 2021
Malaysia can expect a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases in the next 1 to 3 months but we hope this will be short-lived.
24 December 2021
“Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations. There’s no place for them in light of Omicron.”
24 December 2021
To impose a deadline of Feb 2022 to get booster shots is certainly unfair.
23 December 2021
Although the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) projects nearly 300,000 daily Covid-19 cases in Malaysia by end Jan, hospitalisation and deaths are expected to rise minimally, much lower than the Aug-Sept 2021 height of the epidemic.