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Winning the war against COVID-19 in Malaysia: An achievable goal?

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dc.contributor.authorJaafar H.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAzzeri A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-29T02:04:10Z
dc.date.available2024-05-29T02:04:10Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionMalaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine 2020, Vol. 20 (1): 148-149en_US
dc.description.abstractThe World Health Organization (WHO) has initially categorised COVID-19 infection as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) in late January 2020 and later on declared the outbreak as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. On February 4, 2020 the first Malaysian positive COVID-19 patients was detected. It was estimated through a thorough decision tree technique, cumulatively 22,000 positive patients were expected to be infected nationwide. At the current rate of disease detection, screening yield and clinical capacity in Malaysia, the identification of the positive patients will have to be continuously done until middle of May 2020. In addition, a prediction with the forecasted testing capacity was also conducted. In contrast with the earlier estimation, massive testing causes the number of positive patients to be saturated earlier, by the end of April 2020. Based on the projection, 346, 307 cumulative tests will be conducted with 225,100 cumulative positive cases will be identified. Of the numbers, the cumulative number of patients in care would be 17,631 with 705 cumulative number of admission to intensive care unit and 353 cumulative patients required for ventilator. The cumulative death and cumulative discharge are expected to be 394 and 6008 respectively. Currently, it is challenging for Malaysia to flatten the epidemic curve due to the constraints of healthcare resources. These challenges potentially highlight the need for realistic strategies with regard to the country’s capacity.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.37268/mjphm/vol.20/no.1/art.493
dc.identifier.epage149
dc.identifier.issn1675-0306
dc.identifier.issue1
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dc.identifier.urihttp://www.mjphm.org/index.php/mjphm/article/view/493/102
dc.identifier.urihttps://oarep.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/10285
dc.identifier.volume20
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMalaysian Public Health Physicians Associationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofMalaysian Journal of Public Health Medicineen_US
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectCovid-19,en_US
dc.subjectMalaysiaen_US
dc.titleWinning the war against COVID-19 in Malaysia: An achievable goal?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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