By Melati Mohd Ariff
This is a summary of COVID-19 problems in Malaysia and around the world from February 24 to 5pm. February 28. Globally, the total number of cases exceeded 82,000, while nearly 3,000 died from the infection.
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) – On the COVID-19 front, everything was fine at the beginning of this week, but a total of 3 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours. At the time of writing, the cumulative total of COVID-19 cases shown in Malaysia was 25 since the first 3 cases were announced on 25 January. Twenty-two patients recovered and were discharged.
Internationally, however, the scenario is so upbeat that new COVID-19 “hot spots” have erupted, although, more positively, the number of new infections and deaths in China is declining.
Datuk’s director general of health, Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, said case 23, a 53-year-old Malaysian woman who had recently visited Japan, tested positive for coronavirus (February 27).
The 24th case considers a 41-year-old Japanese working in Malaysia and visited Japan last month and Indonesia this month. She’s been being treated at Kuala Lumpur Hospital lately.
Case 25 considers a 54-year-old Italian, married to a Malaysian man who lives there. He had travelled to Italy between 15 and 21 February and is now admitted to Sungai Buluh Hospital.
Incidentally, on Monday, February 24, Datuk Seri Dzulkefly Ahmad marked his last day as health minister by posting a tweet stating that two patients recovered and were discharged from the hospital.
According to Dr. Noor Hisham, tests have been conducted to date on a total of 1,569 other people, adding patients under research, close contact and others.
“From there, 23 tested positive for COVID-19 and negative 1,523, while 23 are still waiting for lab test results,” he said.
A group of 66 Malaysians and their circle of family members from Wuhan, China, arrived in Malaysia on a special AirAsia flight on February 26 –fotoBERNAMA (2020) ALL FREE
Meanwhile, the humanitarian project that repatriated the organization of the time of Malaysians and their families stranded in Wuhan, China, took place Wednesday morning (February 26).
A total of 89 people, totaling 46 Malaysians and 20 members of the circle of non-Malaysian relatives in Wuhan, 12 team members, nine representatives of Malaysian government agencies and two officials of the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing, were on the AirAsia special flight that arrived at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 6:45 am
Like the passengers of the first humanitarian flight departing Wuhan on February 4, those on board at the time of the flight underwent an aptitude check at the aviation crisis unit in KLIA.
According to Dr. Noor Hisham, Wuhan returnees tested negative for COVID-19. However, they were all taken to the AKEPT Leadership Academy in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, where they will be quarantined for 14 days.
Meanwhile, a local newspaper quoted the head of the Virology Unit at the Institute of Medical Research, Dr. T. Ravindran, saying that there is a wonderful option that the COVID-19 virus can be transmitted through close contact and can simply stay active for up to 96 hours in cold areas.
This meant that when an inflamed user sneezes or coughs, the virus can reach up to a meter. He also said malaysian hospitals were using HIV medicines to treat COVID-19 cases.
GLOBAL STATE
Several young people who were among the repatriates of Wuhan also had to go through a fitness check in the KLIA Air Disaster Unit. –photoBERNAMA (2020) ALL FREE
Globally, according to the online page of the Malaysian Ministry of Health (which cited statistics published through the World Health Organization), the total number of COVID-19 instances 82,756 and 2,814 at 10 a.m. today.
Countries with COVID-19 cases have increased to 48 since 27 last Friday, and the new hot spots are South Korea, Japan, Iran and Italy.
China, the point of the COVID-19 epidemic, recorded a total of 78,632 cases and 2,718 deaths.
Saudi Arabia, which has no case of COVID-19, has suspended access to the kingdom for the Omra pilgrimage and visits to the Nabawi Mosque in Medina.
His Chancellery also announced that visas for tourists from countries reporting COVID-19 infections had been suspended.
Singapore’s Ministry of Health announced that daegu and Cheongdo tourists would be allowed to enter the republic due to the accumulation of positive COVID-19 cases in any of South Korea’s cities.
The ministry said on a Wednesday that tourists who have visited the two cities in more than 14 days will not be able to enter or transit through Singapore.
Singapore reported a total of 93 cases with 31 patients still being treated and 62 cured.
The entire Japanese school formula will close from Monday to involve the coronavirus outbreak (Reuters: Athit Perawongmetha). – Photography as illustration
Countries inflamed with COVID-19 are: South Korea (1766 cases), Italy (655), Iran (245), Japan (214), Singapore (93), United States (60), Germany (46), Kuwait (43) , Thailand (40), France (38), Bahrain (38), Bahrain (33), 3), Australia (23), Malaysia (25), Vietnam (16), United Kingdom (15), Spain (15), United Arab Emirates (13), Canada (13), Switzerland (8), Iraq (7), Sweden (7), Oman (4), India (3), Philippines (3) Array Croatia (3) , Israel (3), Austria (3), Greece (3), Finland (2), Russia (2), Lebanon (2), Pakistan (2), Cambodia (1), Nepal (1), Sri Lanka (1), Egypt (1), Belgium (1), Afghanistan (1), Algeria (1), Northern Macedonia (1), Georgia (1), Romania (1), Brazil (1) and Norway (1).
On Monday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that while the world stage is not yet a pandemic, the world is preparing for it. He said the accumulation in instances in Italy, Iran and South Korea was a concern.
According to Tedros, in Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait and Oman they were connected to Iran. And some of those reported in Algeria, Austria, Croatia, Germany, Spain and Switzerland were connected to Italy.
The Brazilian fitness government showed its first case of COVID-19 and is recently investigating 20 suspected cases.
In Beijing, media reported Wednesday that about 14% of patients in Guangdong Province who had recovered from COVID-19 tested positive for the virus.
The deputy director of the Guangdong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Song Tie, said there is no transparent conclusion as to why this happened.
In some other development, China has banned industry and wild animal intake in its efforts to spread COVID-19.
MORE CASES IN SOUTH KOREA, IRAN, ITALY
Market staff dressed in a disinfectant spray protective apparatus at a market in Daegu city in southeastern South Korea as a precaution after the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak (photo AFP) – Illustration photography
In South Korea, 256 more cases of COVID-19 were reported today, bringing the total to 2022, the highest number of COVID-19 cases outside China.
More than 90% of the new cases have been reported in the southern city of Daegu, with a maximum of patients connected to the Church of Jesus Shincheonji. The first case in South Korea concerned a 61-year-old woman who had visited the church several times while having a fever.
Daegu is South Korea’s fourth largest city with a population of 2.5 million.
In Iran, his fitness ministry spokesman said COVID-19 killed 26 other people yesterday, while the total number of cases was 245.
The latest figures from Iran show that the virus has across the country.
Iranian COVID-19 patients come with the head of the Iranian Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and National Security, Mojtaba Zonnour, and Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harichi.
In Italy, meanwhile, the number of patients with COVID-19 was more than 655 to date with 17 deaths. The deceased patients were elderly or had medical problems.
The two COVID-19 “hot spots” in Italy are Lombardy and Veneto, which have reported more than 30 new cases.
In Lombardy, where the Italian currency capital of Milan is located, they said that the coVID-19 instances had risen to 259 on Wednesday since 240 the previous day, with 4 children, adding a 4-year-old girl, inflamed in the first instances in the country.
COVID-19 BACKGROUND
According to the WHO website, his country’s workplace in China reported on cases of pneumonia detected in Wuhan on 31 December 2019.
On January 7, the Chinese government demonstrated that the new coronavirus can be transmitted from man to man.
Coronaviruses are a giant circle of disease-causing relatives of viruses ranging from colds to more serious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-VOC).
One of the genetic series of the virus noted similarities with that observed in snakes and bats.
Health officials in China have known the seafood market from Huanan to Wuhan as the coronavirus transmission market.
On 11 February, WHO announced the official call for the virus, COVID-19, which is an acronym for coronavirus 2019 – CO corona, VI for viruses and D for disease.
On 30 January, WHO declared that the coronavirus outbreak was a global emergency. By that time, it had spread to 18 countries and 170 deaths.
The aim of the declaration is to save it or reduce cross-border transmissions.
With more than 2,800 deaths worldwide, COVID-19 overcame SARS, which was 774 deaths in 2003.
Translated through Rema Nambiar
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