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The statement of Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin on the TV3 Soal program shows ignorance in understanding the spread of the covid-19 epidemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) have made clear understanding of the covid-19 outbreak.
Even Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, National University of Malaysia (UKM), Dr Mohd Shahrul Mohd Nadzir, who is also a specialist in air quality research, said previous studies have shown that air transmission plays a key role in the epidemiology of two coronaviruses, the Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic Severe (SARS) 2003 in China and the West Asian Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the Arabian Peninsula in 2012.
Coronavirus is known to be transmitted through inhalation and absorption. The virus can be transmitted from person to person within 1.8 meters through body fluids resulting from coughing or sneezing.
The Movement Control Order (MCO) is aimed at avoiding situations where a person who is positively infected with the virus will endanger anyone within the radius of the area or contaminate the surface area with the covid-19 virus.
Zuraida may have come under the influence of MOH Minister Dr Adham Baba when he misspelled 500 countries in the WHO earlier. But I also advise her to be more careful when making statements so as not to cause deterioration in current situation.
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