{"id":99899,"date":"2020-11-05T08:11:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T00:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=99899"},"modified":"2020-11-05T08:11:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T00:11:45","slug":"health-ministry-expects-r-naught-value-to-decrease-in-three-weeks-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=99899","title":{"rendered":"Health Ministry expects R-naught value to decrease in three weeks&#8217; time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PUTRAJAYA, Nov 5 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0The Ministry of Health\u00a0(MOH) expects the COVID-19 infectivity or\u00a0R-naught (R0) value to be reduced to up to 0.5\u00a0in the next two or three weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health director-general&nbsp;Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) enforced in several areas in the Klang Valley and Sabah had successfully reduced the value of R0 from 2.2 at the beginning of September to the current&nbsp;1.0.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If in two weeks\u00a0we can drop the R0 to 1.0,\u00a0in two or three weeks\u2019 time we can reach R0 0.5,&#8221; he told a press conference\u00a0here Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Noor Hisham said the Health Ministry is anticipating a surge in COVID-19 cases by the end of the year as it is now\u00a0dealing with the mutated virus that is replacing the circulating virus, so the infectivity is slightly higher than the circulating virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several other countries are also facing the same situation of a surge in infections, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Malaysia has flattened the COVID-19 curve using the public health intervention approach like how the infection was managed in Kedah and such a method will continue to contain COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA, Nov 5 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0The Ministry of Health\u00a0(MOH) expects the COVID-19 infectivity or\u00a0R-naught (R0) value to be reduced to up to 0.5\u00a0in the next two or three weeks\u2019 time. Health director-general&nbsp;Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) enforced in several areas in the Klang Valley and Sabah had successfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":97816,"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\/99899"}],"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=99899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}