KUALA LUMPUR: The only way to ensure Malaysia does not end up with a second wave of Covid-19 is to ensure everyone is working together to break the chain of infection, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.
Calling on everyone to be responsible in following guidelines that had been set by the Health Ministry to fight the pandemic, he said: "We have to make history...if we want to be successful and break the chain of Covid-19 infections in this country, we have to come together as one.
"If all of us come together with all our effort, I am sure we can do it, Malaysia boleh."
Dr Noor Hisham said the onus in fighting Covid-19 was not only on the Health Ministry or the government but also on each individual in the country.
"Social compliance, social discipline, social responsibility is very important," he said when asked if Malaysia was ready for a second wave of Covid-19 infections, as reports of new clusters had emerged in Wuhan, China and South Korea.
On the level of compliance by members of the public during the Movement Control Order (MCO), he said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Hamid Bador had informed him that it was almost 90 per cent.
He said the focus should therefore be on the remaining 10 per cent.
"If our industries and supermarkets comply with the standard operating procedures (SOP), I am sure we can bring down the cases further," he said, pointing out that the number of cases in the country had slowly decreased with a slight decline in local transmission.
"We have managed to record cases from three to two figures and today is the lowest.
"Out of the 16 cases today, three were imported so local transmission involved 13 cases and out of that, nine were from foreign workers and the remaining four local transmissions among Malaysians," he said.