Dr Noor Hisham also says Selangor’s public health care system still has capacity to treat Covid-19 cases, and as such, there are no plans to reopen MAEPS as a low-risk facility yet.
The 300-400+ coronavirus cases reported daily in Sabah may not be the full picture of the disease burden in the state, as we may be looking at much higher numbers, especially if we expand testing capacities in the state.
The 43% proportion of Sabah’s Covid-19 patients who are sick enough to require hospitalisation is more than triple the 12% of Malaysia’s overall Covid-19 cases back in early April who were in the third to fifth stages of disease.
Across Sabah, medical frontliners described full beds with sick Covid-19 patients, understaffed hospitals, fatigued health care workers labouring 24/7 as their colleagues contract coronavirus, and protective gear stocks running low.
Permission for travel to Sabah will only be granted to certain categories of people, who must make an application to Sabah’s state domestic affairs and research office.
Schools, places of worship, and non-essential businesses will be closed, as employers are ordered to allow their employees to take leave or work from home.
Unlike previous travel from certain red zones in the country, the heated Sabah state election likely posed far greater risk because it involved public rallies, home visits, and both inter-district travel throughout Sabah and inter-state travel during the campaign.
Their second RT-PCR test with positive results were taken upon arrival in Sarawak airports four and five days respectively after their first test in Sabah with negative results.