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A word of caution on full re-opening during the Covid-19 pandemic - Lim Kit Siang
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Publish date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021, 04:21 PM
The Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri has announced that from tomorrow all states will now be in Phase 3 and beyond of the National Recovery Plan (NRP).
This was not to be under the original NRP announce by the then Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin on June 15, 2021 and which defined the following criteria for transition from one phase to another:
Phase 1- <4,000 daily cases, moderate ICU use, 10% vaccinated.
Phase 2- <2,000 daily cases, sufficient ICU beds available,40% vaccinated.
Phase 3 – <500 daily cases, sufficient ICU beds available, 60% vaccinated.
Phase 4 – Full re-opening of economy (Nov & Dec).
Five states will transition from Phase 2 to Phase 3 from Monday (Oct 18) onwards, namely Kelantan, Perak, Penang, Sabah, and Kedah.
Also, from tomorrow onwards, Malacca and the Klang Valley – comprising Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur and Selangor – will transition from Phase 3 to Phase 4, joining Negeri Sembilan, Pahang and Labuan.
There is need for a word of caution in the full re-opening of the country during the Covid-19 pandemic, and as expressed by the medical specialist whom I am in correspondence, who said:
“We hear daily of ‘living with the virus’. The virus is endemic and we will never have ‘zero covid’. All those statements are correct. BUT have we prepared adequately for ‘living with covid’.
“There are many countries that have now done that. The best examples are the Scandinavian countries like Norway, Denmark, Sweden, also Germany and Ireland. After one week of ‘normal’ living, their numbers are still low and deaths are zero.
“BUT they do have a high vaccination rate (about 80-90% to start ) and their population is obviously more educated with a higher degree of social and societal consciousness.
“To open up and live with Covid must also mean that our vulnerables are fully vaccinated and protected, and that out hospitals have enough beds and ICU beds. A quick check shows that our ICU are at 63% capacity.”
With regard interstate travel for the fully vaccinated, he asked:
“This good for commerce, and also good as a litmus test to see if we are ready for ‘living with the virus’?
“In about 7 days, will we see a surge in Covid cases? And in about 10 days’ time, Covid deaths? With all the ‘holiday spirits’, mask and physical distancing is forgotten. Let us see what happens end October!”
It is a matter of concern that Malaysia has not been able to reduce the daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths as compared to other countries like Indonesia and India
Yesterday, Malaysia recorded 7,509 new Covid-19 cases and 88 Covid-19 deaths, again losing out to Indonesia in both categories for 12 consecutive days. Indonesia yesterday recorded 997 Covid-19 cases and 44 Covid-19 deaths.
We are even losing out in the rate of reduction of daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths than India, which reported yesterday 14,051 new Covid-19 cases and 146 Covid-19 deaths.
India had staged a phenomenal reduction of Covid-19 cases and deaths, when five months ago on May 6, it reached a daily peak of 414, 433 Covid-19 cases and on May 23, it reached a daily peak of 5,015 Covid-19 deaths.
Yesterday, India reduced its daily new cases to just 4% of its daily peak and daily peak of Covid-19 deaths to 3% when India recorded 14,051 new Covid-19 cases and 146 Covid-19 deaths yesterday.
The Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, must devise a new policy and strategy to bring about a faster reduction of daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths.
(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Sunday, 17th October 2021)
https://blog.limkitsiang.com/2021/10/17/a-word-of-caution-on-full-re-opening-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
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Constant flip flop from Senior Lim! Senior Lim was the first shouting and screaming for all sectors to open up under his whole society thingy! Now flip and says not to open up completely! Baloney! Oh yeah, he was also the one who demand Sinovac to be given priority in mass vaccination! Now that we have the data, it seems Astrazeneca is the most effective one!
So yeah, Senior Lim should keep his mouth shut if he doesn't know what he is talking about! His days of shouting month is over as rakyat are now more inform of things!
2021-10-17 17:04
Our vaccination rate is 95%! We should be opening up completely! If there's a surge, just get booster shots which is far cheaper compare to total lockdown! And soon we will get antiviral drug from mersck which is expensive but cheaper compare to hospitalization!
We have no choice! However, having said that, for antiviral drugs, those who are not vaccianted should pay for it! Only those who are vaccinated should be given privilege to get antiviral at subsidize cost!
2021-10-17 17:06
The Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, must devise a new policy and strategy to bring about a faster reduction of daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths.
Answer : Oh come on Senior Lim! The reason for high infections is because our borders are so weak! Migrants are coming in by the bus load! You should tell the government of this rather that give this 'Khairy must devise new policy'! What policy! Tell us! Senior Lim always use the same tactic high on rhetoric with zero idea or suggestion!
2021-10-17 17:10
Just do like indonesia & india lah!
Only report level 3, 4 and 5 of the more serious cases lah!
Those who have no symptom and mild symptom (which are the majority} just ignore lah!
Mild symptom of covid infection is just like covid booster shot mah!
If approach Like that people are more confident to get on with their life mah!
2021-10-17 18:04
Indonesia reports a very low 626 new Covid-19 cases and restrictions on
public activities are eased on Monday (Oct 18).
2021-10-19 12:57
A vendor waits for customers along a street in Jakarta on Monday (Oct 18,
2021) as the govt has eased all the Covid-19 restrictions in the country. - AFP
the govt has eased all the Covid-19 restrictions in the country. - AFP
2021-10-19 12:58
With 95% vaccination rate, we should totally open up all sectors! So yeah, even if those vaccinated are infected, chances are hospitalization will be low!
Senior Lim and Anwar are trying to gain political mileage! But tell me, how come Harapan fall to contain Covid on it's 1st wave! Just watch all those youtube videos of Harapan ministers making fun of Covid!
2021-10-19 13:04
covid not gonna disappear completely so fast yet just from high vaxxing rate
OTOH, if govt & rakyat get excessively overconfident from temporary reduction in daily cases & both sides drop their guard, covid could quite easily make another upsurge
as has indeed actually happened in US, UK, Israel, Singapore, Russia
this is neither a threat, nor a scare story, but a friendly realistic responsible adult reminder
2021-10-19 13:16
living with covid does not mean everybody forgetting about safety health precautionary preventive measures including stringent restrictions, appropriate ppe, tight sop etc.
living with covid does not mean everybody freely & nonchalantly exposing themselves to the risk of getting covid, that would just be surefire recipe for another disaster
2021-10-19 13:18
Britain reported 45,140 new cases on Sunday (Oct 17), the highest daily jump since mid-July, around when Prime Minister Boris Johnson authorised the removal of most Covid-19-related restrictions in what was dubbed "Freedom Day".
2021-10-19 13:20
The high infection rate that we saw earlier was because Mohiden administration fail to close prevent influx of migrants into our country!
Just look at our PPVs! Full of migrants getting free shots! Millions more are unvaccinated!
Fortunately PM Sabri has tighten migration of late! But again, with corrupt enforcement officers on the ground, it's just matter of time before huge wave of migrants with variants come in in bus loads again!
2021-10-19 13:28
Instead of hunting down illegal migrants, our enforcement were too busy finding faults with malaysians! That's was the biggest mistake of Mohiden administration!
2021-10-19 13:30
What the govenment can do now is to tighten our borders! Clear all illegal migrants! And prepare for booster shots!
As for SOPs, i think malaysians are compiling enought! I mean just look at our vaccination rate! It's really impressive!
Only the noisy 5% are making so much trouble for us now! I say, make vaccination mandatory! That's the only way!
2021-10-19 13:31
Positive effect of high vaxxing rate gonna be negated by negative effect of too rapid opening up & loosening up
It's already happened in several other places
US, UK, Israel, Singapore, Russia
Why do many malaysians including the politicians still believe that malaysia gonna be an exceptional case
2021-10-20 01:45
Deworming medication Ivermectin did not significantly reduce the effects of severe COVID-19 infection and could not be recommended for inclusion in current treatment guidelines, said a Health Ministry study.
Dr Noor Hisham said that safety analysis showed three times more adverse events were reported in the IVM group versus the SOC group, most commonly diarrhoea, while there was a trend of 28-day mortality reduction by IVM with standard of care, but not reaching statistical significance.
" while there was a trend of 28-day mortality reduction by IVM with standard of care "
2021-11-05 17:40
" a trend of 28-day mortality reduction by IVM " ... an adverse or
favourable event by IVM ?
2021-11-05 18:02
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Just do what India n Indonesia got done to fight the c 19 pandemic.
2021-10-17 16:56