.jpg "Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah arrives for his daily press conference on Covid-19 in Putrajaya February 09,02,2020. — Picture by Hari Anggara")
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 9 — The movement control order (MCO) reintroduced last month has borne the desired result as the daily new Covid-19 cases are decreasing, the Health director-general said today.
Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah added that the cases could stabilise and reach a plateau by week four of the MCO if the public continued to comply with the standard operating procedures.
“If we look at the past nine days, cases are on the decline,” he said in a news conference this evening.
He suggested that worse may have passed, as when new Covid-19 cases spiked to 5,298 within 24 hours on January 31.
“We expect that the implementation of the MCO for a period of four weeks, then we could see the results
“At the moment we are entering week three of the MCO and in a week’s time, we will see a downward trend in daily cases as well as the R-nought, from 1.2 to a manageable 0.6,” said Dr Noor Hisham.
R-nought refers to the basic reproduction number (R-nought or R0) of Covid-19 infections.
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