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Slight rise in Covid-19 numbers

KUCHING: Sarawak recorded 367 new Covid-19 cases during Epid (epidemiological) Week 28 – a slight increase from Epid Week 27’s 326 cases. According to the Sarawak Disaster Management Committee’s (SDMC) weekly report released on Monday (July 18), Kuching remained the state’s most affected district during Epid Weeks 28 and 27, with 130 and 137 cases […]

State registers slight dip in Covid-19 cases

KUCHING: Sarawak recorded a total of 326 COVID-19 cases during the 27th epidemiology (epid) week, nine fewer than the 335 cases reported during the 26th epidemiology week. Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) in its weekly COVID-19 update said the new cases brings the cumulative COVID-19 cases in the state to 308,332. It said during the […]

354 new Covid-19 cases recorded in latest report

KUCHING: Sarawak recorded 354 new Covid-19 cases during Epid (epidemiological) Week 25, a slight increase from Epid Week 24’s 325 cases. According to the Sarawak Disaster Management Committee’s (SDMC) weekly report on Monday (June 27), Kuching remained the state’s most affected district during Epid Weeks 25 and 24, with 97 and 104 cases respectively. In […]

State records 175 new COVID-19 cases in Epid Week 22

KUCHING: Sarawak reported 175 new COVID-19 cases during Epid (epidemiological) Week 22, a significant drop from the 304 cases recorded in Epid Week 21. According to the Sarawak Disaster Management Committee’s (SDMC) weekly report released today, Kuching remained the state’s most affected district during Epid Weeks 21 and 22, with 119 and 67 cases respectively. […]

What is considered acceptable endemicity?

KUCHING: Being in an endemic phase of Covid-19 means that the infection is at a level that is acceptable and manageable, according to public health expert Prof Datuk Dr Lokman Hakim Sulaiman. The International Medical University pro vice- chancellor of research, and Institute for Research, Development and Innovation director, explained that this was a level […]

Better safe than sorry

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. – BILL GATES, AMERICAN SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, INVESTOR, AND PHILANTHROPIST An epidemic as defined as the rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of […]