Carian mengenai topik infectious-diseases

WHO's Margaret Harris repeated concerns about a rise in outbreaks of infectious diseases, particularly diarrhoeal diseases.

According to the World Organisation for Animal Health, 60 percent of human infectious diseases are zoonotic.

Heart disease, cancer, diabetes and respiratory disease now outnumber infectious diseases as the top killers globally, said the report.

Biotechnology must also play a vital role in national health security to overcome infectious and non-infectious diseases, Ismail Sabri said.

The MySejahtera application has been updated with a new feature to track hotspots of infectious diseases, including the hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD).

People having been both fully vaccinated and previously infected with COVID-19 have the strongest protection against the virus.

Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said top ministry officials were in the dark about Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali's violation of home quarantine rules until last week.

An internal investigation into the series of events following the minister’s July 7 return from Turkey has since been completed and shared with the police, who are probing the issue.

Asked during a press conference this evening, Noor Hisham shared that he, along with the ministry’s deputy director-general and head of infectious diseases, were not informed about the matter until it made the news.

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has been placed under a 14-day quarantine at home beginning today, after attending a post-cabinet meeting with Covid-19 patient on Wednesday.

His office said Muhyiddin was tested for Covid-19 this morning and the results came back negative but he is required to undergo quarantine under Section 15 of the Prevention of Infectious Diseases Act 1988.

The daughter of Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Nurulhidayah, was fined RM800 by the Magistrate's Court in Putrajaya today for violating the movement control order (MCO) last month.

Her husband Saiful Nizam was also fined RM800.

Magistrate Shah Wirah Abdul Halim meted out the sentences after the two pleaded guilty to charges of breaching Section 3(1) of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within the Infected Local Areas) Regulations 2020.

In a separate development, Senior Minister (security cluster) Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the government will no longer enforce the 10pm to 6am curfew or inter-district travel restrictions.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has expressed concern about the possibility of an increase in cases of flood-related infectious diseases besides COVID-19, following the ongoing floods in several states.

Amendments to the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342) which were to be discussed and decided today have been postponed to the next Parliament sitting.

The Dewan Rakyat sitting, scheduled to end today, has been extended by one day until Monday, Dec 20, to enable the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Bill 2021 to be decided.

The Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Bill 2021 which includes increasing the maximum compound to RM10,000 on violators was tabled for second reading today.

Dr Adham Baba today revealed that he was really nervous when he had to sign the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342) in March 2020 in order to implement the MCO.

The government will focus on one general COVID-19 SOP that can be enforced through the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 (Act 342), and nine guidelines.