We must fully utilise this two-week “circuit-breaker” to reset our public health strategies to ensure that the lockdown is optimised with science-based, anti-Covid-19 interventions.
Phase 1 lockdown on all social and economic sectors is scheduled from June 1-14; Phase 2, with reopening of certain economic sectors, for the next four weeks; and subsequently, Phase Three with current movement restrictions on social activities.
Prioritise all stakeholders in the hospital ecosystem for vaccination, including clinical representatives and technicians within the medical device industry workforce and other essential workers in the medical device manufacturing supply chain.
Selangor MB Amirudin Shari stresses the need for mass Covid-19 testing and vaccination, as well as financial aid for the B40 and improved access to education.
Selangor’s Covid-19 incidence rate, ICU admission rate, and death rate exceed national rates, though the state is not the worst in these indicators nationwide.