COVID-19 epidemic in Malaysia: Epidemic progression, challenges, and response

• Main Authors: Jamal Hisham, Hashim, Mohammad Adam, Adman, Zailina, Hashim, Mohd Firdaus, Mohd Rad, Soo, Chen Kwan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
• Subjects: RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine; T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/32842/1/COVID-19%20epidemic%20in%20malaysia_epidemic%20progression%2C%20challenges%2C%20and%20response.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/32842/; https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.560592; https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.560592

COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest communicable disease outbreak to have hit Malaysia since the 1918 Spanish Flu which killed 34,644 people or 1% of the population of the then British Malaya. In 1999, the Nipah virus outbreak killed 105 Malaysians, while the SARS outbreak of 2003 claimed only 2 lives...