The new year 2022 began with the Ministry of Health asks Malaysians to always be vigilant with the new wave of COVID-19 that will hit the country at any time. The epidemic that is now mutated and called Omicron has already started invading several countries

Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said among the measures to stop the spread of the epidemic were extensive booster dose coverage, wearing a well -ventilated face mask, implementing TRIIS (Test, Report, Isolate, Inform and Search), activate MySejahtera contact tracking application and entrance control. international.

While some have argued that Omicron is less risky than the Delta variant, Khairy said Omicron has proven to be more contagious than Delta. Therefore, it will put pressure on the country's health system and facilities if early steps are not taken to reduce the rate of transmission.

Like other countries, it is very likely that the Omicron wave will start in Malaysia. Extensive booster dose coverage, wearing face masks, good ventilation, #TRIIS, MySJ Trace & international gateway control are among the measures to slow Omicron transmission.

"Some refer to the Omicron impact data which is not as bad as Delta. It looks like that. But the infectiousness of Omicron is higher Delta. If the case denominator is larger, definitely the hospital/ICU admission rate will rise. @KKMPutrajaya wants to avoid a paralyzed public health system. Strategy: slow down Omicron, he said in a tweet on Twitter.

Khairy wrote the tweet in response to Malaysia's Director General of Health Noor Hisham Abdullah's statement that the national COVID-19 infection rate on Saturday (Jan 1) was at 0.99, up from 0.98 from the previous day. Malaysia reported 2,882 COVID-19 infections on Sunday, bringing the country's total to 2.76 million.