Expert calls for surveillance system to track community transmission

Ragananthini Vethasalam Ragananthini Vethasalam Updated 2 years ago · Published on 31 Jul 2020 7:00AM · 0 Comments

While lax compliance with health and safety guidelines and imported infections are the contributing factors to a recent spike in coronavirus cases, the authorities also need to keep track of community transmissions. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, July 31, 2020.

MALAYSIA needs an outbreak-surveillance system that can warn the authorities early about Covid-19 transmissions in a community, said epidemiologist Prof Dr Awang Bulgiba Awang Mahmud.

He said lax compliance with health and safety guidelines and imported infections are the contributing factors to the recent spike in coronavirus cases.

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