As many as 35 participants (10 cyclists and around 25 volunteers), including two cancer survivors, participated in a 10-day bicycle ride from Sandakan to Sibu from July 15-25.
The 4-year-old needed a liver transplant; Indonesia reported three deaths of children with the unidentified form of hepatitis, while Singapore reported one hospitalised case of an infant.
The situation in the east coast of Sabah is urgent; should any more autoclave machines break down, it will severely cripple the three major hospitals here.
Elective cases have been deferred in specialist hospitals in Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan, Tawau, Keningau, and Lahad Datu, while normal wards in most Sabah hospitals are converted to Covid wards.
Khairy Jamaluddin attributes the high number of Covid-19 cases in Sabah to asymptomatic testing; Masidi Manjun says Sabah’s Covid vax rate is higher than officially reported.
MPs ask for a digitised health care system, development of health infrastructure in Sabah, upgrades for public health clinics, and Covid-19 precautionary measures in schools.