IMR doctor speaks of experience testing M sia s first Covid-19 positive cases
Modified29 Jan 2021, 3:14 am
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It was Jan 25, 2020. The sun hasn t risen yet. But for a team of doctors and lab technicians attached to the Institute of Medical Research Malaysia (IMR), their eyes could not have opened wider.
They each had just received a phone call. Perhaps the most shocking one in their lives as researchers in the country s most elite medical laboratory. The National Public Health Laboratory (MKAK) in Sungai Buloh has concluded their tests, and it looks like we might have the first positive Sars-CoV-2 cases in our country, a voice at the other end of the phone told Dr T Ravindran, the head of Virology Unit at IMR.
Friday, 22 Jan 2021 05:12 AM MYT
BY R. LOHESWAR
A general view of the Sungai Buloh Hospital January 29, 2020. Health experts had predicted that hospitals would be overrun if cases hit the 5,000 to 8,000 per day mark. Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 22 Patients who need health treatment for serious illnesses must not delay this notwithstanding the advice to avoid hospitals due to possible Covid-19 risks, several doctors said.
They stressed that the recommendation was against unnecessary trips to hospitals and should not be interpreted as a suggestion to put off treatment.
Sunday, 10 Jan 2021 06:55 AM MYT
BY R. LOHESWAR
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham had recently said that according to prediction models, cases will hit 8,000 per day if the basic reproduction number (R-nought or R0) of the virus infection increases to 1.2. Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 Existing medical facilities in the country will be overwhelmed if Covid-19 cases spike in March to an estimated 8,000 cases a day, several medical experts polled by
Malay Mail have warned.
In order to help contain the infections, they suggested that the federal government set up more quarantine centres in each state, and work closely with the state agencies to better reach the masses who are in need of urgent care.