‘We can cope with surge’

Better prepared: A Covid-19 holding tent (for patients who test positive, patients wearing pink wristbands and those with symptoms) has been set up behind the Emergency Unit of Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital in Alor Setar. — G.C.TAN/The Star

ALOR SETAR: Frontliners here are still able to cope with the sudden surge in Covid-19 cases in the state, which tallied over 1,000 cases daily in the past few weeks.

State health director Dr Othman Warijo said the state authority could still manage on its own without help from other states.