{"id":95832,"date":"2020-10-08T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T08:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=95832"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T08:44:42","slug":"malaysians-must-unite-against-mass-covid-19-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=95832","title":{"rendered":"Malaysians must unite against mass COVID-19 transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; All Malaysians must be united in the war\u00a0against this current large scale of COVID-19 transmission, said Health director-general\u00a0Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said&nbsp;the public play&nbsp;a crucial role by fully complying with the prescribed standard operating procedures (SOPs) regardless of the person\u2019s position or status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe cannot win this war to contain or mitigate the virus transmission without public support. All we ask is for the public to \u2018stay at home\u2019&nbsp;and if that is not possible, then please comply with the simple SOPs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWear a mask, safe distancing, and frequent hand washing. Failure to comply will definitely increase the risk of infection and disease transmission,\u201d he wrote on&nbsp;his Facebook last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Oct 1 to yesterday, Malaysia recorded&nbsp;worrying spike in the number&nbsp;of new COVID-19 cases with a three-digit&nbsp;jump and the highest was on Tuesday at 691 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In motivating the frontliners, Noor Hisham&nbsp; said as the last line of the country\u2019s defence, they are the protector of the people\u2019s health and the nation&#8217;s safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe must keep our spirits up and continue to be strong. We have a small window of opportunity to do it right and flatten the curve again. It is now or never.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cA brace reminder to all frontliners to adhere to the case management framework, practice guidelines, and SOPs in the field to protect ourselves from being infected. Health unites us all against one common enemy,&nbsp;COVID-19. Insya-Allah,\u201d he added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He acknowledged&nbsp;that it has been ten long months for those&nbsp;on the front line&nbsp;and back scenes working round the clock to fight the invisible enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many would feel fatigued or frustrated with every new cluster that emerges,&nbsp;after all, frontliners are only humans, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN- BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; All Malaysians must be united in the war\u00a0against this current large scale of COVID-19 transmission, said Health director-general\u00a0Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.\u00a0 He said&nbsp;the public play&nbsp;a crucial role by fully complying with the prescribed standard operating procedures (SOPs) regardless of the person\u2019s position or status. \u201cWe cannot win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":88463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95832"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}