Health DG: Country can break chain of infection if everyone follows the SOPs

Commuters wearing face masks and seated apart on board a ferry from the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terrminal in Butterworth to Raja Tun Uda ferry terminal in Penang on June 3, 2020. – ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star

PUTRAJAYA: If everybody follows the SOPs set by the authorities, the country may be able to break the chain of infection without a Covid-19 vaccine.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in his daily briefing on Sunday (June 7) said the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) here were controlled without the use of vaccines.