Malaysia doing better than JP Morgan’s Covid-19 forecast

Ragananthini Vethasalam Ragananthini Vethasalam Updated 6 years ago · Published on 13 Apr 2020 7:07PM · 3 Comments

Malaysia's Covid-19 situation is better than JP Morgan's forecast of 6,300 cases by mid-April, detecting only 4,817 cases so far. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, April 13, 2020.

MALAYSIA is doing much better in handling Covid-19 than JP Morgan’s forecast for it to peak in mid-April, Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today.

The US based investment banking group had projected the number of cases in Malaysia to peak at 6,300 in mid-April.

“JP Morgan had actually predicted that we will have a peak of 6,300 cases on April 14, that is tomorrow. Today we have (a total of) 4,817 cases,” Noor Hisham told reporters at a press conference today.

He said the ministry has, however, targeted to contain the number of cases at fewer than 6,300 cases.

“I think we are certainly doing much better and perhaps tomorrow we will know. Perhaps we will have fewer than 5,000 (total) cases tomorrow,” he said.

Malaysia today recorded 134 new cases, bringing the national total to 4,817.

Of the 4,817 cases, 2,464 are active cases whereby the patients are placed under isolation and are still being treated.

Meanwhile, there was one death reported today, bringing the total number of fatalities to 77.

On that note, Noor Hisham said the third phase of the MCO will be crucial in flattening the curve.

He said there are also signs that the first and second phases of the MCO had worked in containing the spread of the virus.

“We need to bring it down further and this is why the third MCO is very important for us.”

“If we can do that, there is a possibility that we can reduce the cases, not only to flatten the curve but also to end Covid-19 in this country,” he said, reiterating the need for people to stay at home.

“If all of us can work together, I am sure we can do that,” he added.

To date, 83,484 people have been screened in Malaysia, of which 4,817 are positive. – April 13, 2020.

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  • Good job done by MOH. A strong ministry instituition serves better guarantee to the interest of the public.Especially when we have a weak legislation instituition, worse if corrupted. Now the Executive and Judiciary instituitions are more reliable after DR M drastically took off the corrupted. But the legislative is still questionable especially after the billions scandals related MPs still linked to the back door govt.

    Posted 6 years ago by James Wong · Reply

  • Why are we relying on JPMorgan for forecasts? They have their own interests and their report may not be objective. Don't we have our own academics, civil servants etc. to work on this?

    Posted 6 years ago by Anak Kampung · Reply

  • Bravo KKM & Malaysian, we have proof them wrong as all consultants are in it for the money as they are also known as Con Militants

    Posted 6 years ago by Teruna Kelana · Reply