Published on: Monday, January 18, 2021
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Enforcement officials have been checking on premises to ensure all standard operating procedures are being followed. (Bernama pic) - FMT
PETALING JAYA: A public health specialist has suggested that the government set a list of key performance indicators (KPI) to determine when to call off the emergency and movement control order (MCO), instead of depending on the daily number of new Covid-19 cases.
Dr Khor Swee Kheng said focusing only on the number of cases, or even the infectivity rate, was problematic as these were metrics that could be easily influenced.
“Using a single KPI will lead to an unstable situation where we are over-dependent on that KPI,” he said, adding that the complex Covid-19 crisis required the incorporation of several KPIs to measure “pandemic severity”.