Skip to content

Health 101

Anything that is related to health, exercise and virus pandemics

Lockdown in Malaysia 2020: Day 94 – A Sense of False Security On The Horizon

lockdown RMCO covid19 outbreak MOH

Considering the number of has gone down at the start of July 2020 (now we are seeing single-digit new infections), the Government announced a more relaxed known as Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO).

As at yesterday, only has 408 active cases (compared to Singapore with 8,735 active cases) and the number of recoveries continues to beat the number of new infections with an impressive 93.80% recovery rate. Statistics source: Health Ministry

Read More »Lockdown in Malaysia 2020: Day 94 – A Sense of False Security On The Horizon

Lock Down in Malaysia 2020: Day 81 – Going Back to Work And A New Normal

lockdown singapore covid19

Ever since the lock down (MCO) was announced by the Government on 18th March 2020, I have been working from home. Image source: Victor He on Unsplash

We were only allowed to venture out to buy the essential items or for medical needs. Then on 1st May 2020, the Government announced a more relaxed called CMCO – conditional movement control order. Then on 10th May 2020, this relaxed lock down was extended to 9th June 2020.

Read More »Lock Down in Malaysia 2020: Day 81 – Going Back to Work And A New Normal

Outbreak 2020: Covid-19 Big Data Projections Till Year 2022

outbreak cmco lock down covid-19

Despite the fact that a strict in place due to Covid-19 , the Government on 4th May 2020 announced a relaxed lockdown with specific SOP aka Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) in place so that businesses that have been badly infected by this Covid-19 pandemic can get back on their feet. Infographic source: Bernama.

Read More »Outbreak 2020: Covid-19 Big Data Projections Till Year 2022

Lockdown in Malaysia 2020: Day 44 – Should Wait for Hair Cut or Just Cut Hair?

hair

Mind you there is a big difference between “I had a ” and “I had cut my hair” – it is something I learned to distinguish thanks to my lecturer when I was still in the law school. The last thing I want to do is to be a hero and try to be a barber myself – Mr Bean armed with scissors probably could do better. Image source: Youtube

In recent days, in light of the strict in some places in and the need to keep best hygienic practices in place, there have been major discussions on the rights of Rohingyas immigrants in Malaysia. They have started to cause problems to the host countries which you make you wonder why the Myanmar Government probably be happy to see them out of the country.

Read More »Lockdown in Malaysia 2020: Day 44 – Should Wait for Hair Cut or Just Cut Hair?

Lockdown in Malaysia 2020: Day 38 – MCO Extended & Drastic Lifestyle Changes

lockdown Tesco shopping

Despite a in place, you have to admit that it is quite impossible to just remain at home and rely on online purchases, especially for groceries. Sooner or later, one has to brace oneself to go out shopping and that is what I had to do yesterday morning.

The problem was I completely forgotten the start date of Ramadan so I was surprised to see a very long line at hypermarket even though I was there quite early. Every time I go out, I have to reset my 14 days incubation period all over again.

Read More »Lockdown in Malaysia 2020: Day 38 – MCO Extended & Drastic Lifestyle Changes

Lock Down In Malaysia 2020: Day 34 – The Ugly Side of Double Standards

lock down

From crisis management readiness started way back in December 2019, have done a rather effective management of the crisis with strict lock down & continuos testing – the number of active cases has continued to reduce from a peak 2596 on 5th April 2020 to 2,103 as at 19th April 2020. In total, 3,197 people have recovered from coronavirus making a recovery rate of 59.32%. Compared to other neighbours, Malaysia is doing more testing indeed. Graph source: Our World in Data.

Indonesia on the other hand, where some Indonesians were not happy when Datuk Dr Musa Nordin tagged the country as a time bomb of pandemic has registered 6,575 cases with 582 deaths and 686 recoveries. The recovery rate at this point is 10.43%. They are just shy away from Singapore who has 6,588 confirmed cases.

Read More »Lock Down In Malaysia 2020: Day 34 – The Ugly Side of Double Standards

Lock Down in Malaysia 2020: Day 31 – It is All About Sustaining the Momentum

lock down

Lock down success in China – seeing the numbers involved is really impressive: Wuhan – 14 million people involved, Hubei lockdown – 59 million people involved, other cities lock down – 159 million people involved. Information & image source: Zoomax

Many thanks to the strict lock down in place (now in 3rd phase yet almost 15,000 lock down violators caught todate), the number of testing done and people doing less things, the number of active cases has indeed continued to reduce. As at todate, has a total confirmed of 5,182 cases with a total 84 deaths and a total 2,766 recovered cases – the fatality rate stands at 1.62% with a recovery rate of 53.38%.

Read More »Lock Down in Malaysia 2020: Day 31 – It is All About Sustaining the Momentum

Lockdown in Malaysia 2020: Day 24 – Have We Tested Enough People For Coronavirus?

test

We are indeed living in a new era where we saw medical science becoming the forefront of helping millions of people around the world to be tested, contain & recover from a deadly virus although unfortunately as to todate 89,900 people have died from the coronavirus.

On the other hand, stupidity & religion has caused so much mess & a surge of new infections in many countries in the last 2 months. Cartoon source: DowntoEarth.Org

Read More »Lockdown in Malaysia 2020: Day 24 – Have We Tested Enough People For Coronavirus?

Outbreak 2020: Possible Virus Surge in Pakistan from Tablighi Jamaat Gathering

Tablighi Jamaat

By the way, today is the first time since the lock down started & the 2nd wave from ‘s gathering in , the active cases have started to reduce. Kudos to the highly dedicated medical team, all the front liners and ordinary Malaysians who despite the many hardships had observed the stay at home order.

There was 236 recovery cases as compared to new of 131 cases making for the first time, the number of active cases to reduce from 2,596 to 2,490 cases. It is a small improvement but it is in the right path – hopefully that this will continue to flatten and on a reducing trend. Graph source: Outbreak.MY

Read More »Outbreak 2020: Possible Virus Surge in Pakistan from Tablighi Jamaat Gathering

Outbreak 2020: Another Surge of Virus Infection from Tabligh Gathering

virus

This time, the surge of Covid-19 virus is in and it is due gathering in New Delhi. It is now labelled as the biggest domestic source of the disease in the country. Doesn’t this sound very familiar? Infographic source: Hindustan Times

It is the same pattern that is emerging from the tabligh gathering in . And Indonesia would have similar nightmare had they allowed the tabligh gathering in Sulawesi Island to continue. Thankfully although they were insisting to proceed initially, the organisers and the participants saw the wisdom of cancelling the event especially after the surge of infections in Malaysia.

Read More »Outbreak 2020: Another Surge of Virus Infection from Tabligh Gathering

Lock Down in Malaysia 2020: Day 15 & I Thought I Was First at Tesco

lock down

Today starts the 2nd phase of the nationwide lock down which will see a stricter of the order in many ways. This 2nd phase was unavoidable considering that ever since the lock down started on18th March 2020, there are a large number of people still out of touch with reality of things. Image source: Bernama.

Everyday (except perhaps today) I often see morons jogging around my residential area although the number of clueless morons has reduced substantially after got some angry responses from other residents in the resident Telegram group and with tighter enforcement of the law.

Read More »Lock Down in Malaysia 2020: Day 15 & I Thought I Was First at Tesco

Lock Down in Malaysia 2020: 6 Main Things I Have Missed Due to Lock Down

lock down

We are in the 13th day of the nationwide lock down aka movement restriction order which commenced on 18th March 2020. By now the US have taken the lead in the total number of infections – recording 105,240 confirmed cases compared to China which has 86,498 confirmed cases todate. Infographic source: Statista

Read More »Lock Down in Malaysia 2020: 6 Main Things I Have Missed Due to Lock Down