Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said in most of the cases family members of the deceased only found out the Covid-19 status if their loved ones after post-mortem is conducted. — Bernama pic
KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 — Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin today said that 91 per cent of brought-in-dead (BID) cases in the country were not aware they had contracted Covid-19 until their last breath.
In a press conference this afternoon, he said in most of cases, family members of the deceased only found out the status of their loved ones after a post-mortem had been conducted.
He said this was according to the ministry’s data that was collected in February.
“We have analysed the data from February 5 until February 21, out of 113 BID cases that we analysed, we found out that 91 per cent of the cases were not aware that they had contracted the virus.”
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