SHAH ALAM: Wanting public health issues to be addressed at all times as opposed to only when a pandemic or a medical crisis occurs, the Selangor government has set up the Selangor Public Health Advisory Council (Selphac).
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Why did MOH stop sharing granular data on Covid-19 deaths, asks Dzul
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The Selangor Taskforce for Covid-19 chairperson Dzulkefly Ahmad has questioned why the Health Ministry stopped sharing granular data on Covid-19 deaths in the past week.
The last time the ministry revealed such data to the public was on July 13.
“(I) truly wanted to know why the.
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MP SPEAKS | Focus more on specific figures than on daily number of Covid-19 cases
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MP SPEAKS | Yesterday, the country experienced a new high of 13,215 Covid-19 cases detected. While this number would have caused great alarm among most Malaysians, it is important to interpret these numbers in the proper context. More testing will detect more positive cases and with the proper standard operating procedures (SOPs), this will help contain the spread of the virus.
Moving forward, there is an urgent need to shift away from looking at the total number of daily Covid-19 cases to more specific and relevant figures including the percentage of positive cases, number and percentage of serious cases, ICU admissions and capacity and number of deaths. With the focus on the right set of figures, there is hope for a gradual reopening of various economic sectors safely and responsibly even if the number of cases remains high.
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