No room for selfishness if Malaysia is to beat Covid-19, says health minister
KUALA LUMPUR, May 6 — Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin reminded Malaysians that the country's shift to Covid-19 endemicity depends on everyone being truthful and cooperative with the authorities on their health status.
“And while the Health Ministry continues with sentinel testing at our clinics and looks to expand other methods like wastewater analysis, data from self-tests are extremely useful,” he wrote in a commentary published in The Star newspaper today. “Without a decent number of WGS, we will not know quickly enough the trajectory of the disease and how to respond to it. We have been lucky that Omicron is not as severe as Delta in Malaysia,” he added.
Khairy also told the public to not be alarmed if the Covid-19 cases increase again during the Hari Raya Adilfitri season.