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.
Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the government will not “shut down the country” again, but will instead focus on targeted areas that report a surge in Covid cases.
Dr Lokman Hakim Sulaiman also doesn't support taking Covid-19 booster jabs every few months without evidence that vaccines and other public health measures are no longer working.
Dr Sim Kui Hian says the previously reported seven local Omicron cases in Sarawak took 3-4 weeks for the Covid-19 variant to be confirmed via genome sequencing.
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.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the tsunami of Covid-19 cases is so huge and quick that it is overwhelming health systems around the world.
KJ says 928 of 1,220 presumptive Omicron cases from international arrivals in Dec 2021 are returnees from Saudi Arabia. In the last week of Dec, 1,558 of 1,842 positive Covid-19 cases detected on arrival in KLIA were travellers from Saudi Arabia.
If Malaysia’s R-naught (R0) hits 1.6 – half of the UK’s R0 value of 3 at its peak – daily Covid-19 infections can surge to more than 30,000 cases a day by end of March, according to projections by the Ministry of Health (MOH).