Be on guard for future outbreaks (Poll Inside)


Better to be safe: Visitors at the Penang Hill funicular train station keeping their face masks on in George Town, Penang. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: Although the Covid-19 global emergency has been declared over, experts have warned Malaysians to be on guard for future outbreaks and to continue to mask up in public as new infections are slowly rising.

Infections in Malaysia went up by 3% from 4,817 to 4,963 cases during epidemiological week (ME17) between April 23-29 even as the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared an end to the three-year public health emergency.

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