MOH: 315 Covid-19 patients aged 14 and below
CORONAVIRUS | Data from the Ministry of Health (MOH) shows that 315 or six percent of Covid-19 patients are under 14-years-old.
Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said these include 83 patients under the age of four...
CORONAVIRUS | Data from the Ministry of Health (MOH) shows that 315 or six percent of Covid-19 patients are under 14-years-old.
Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said these include 83 patients under the age of four.
"If we look at our data, so far, under age four, we have 83 patients, and another 83 are from the group between the ages of five and nine.
"There are 149 patients who are between 10 and 14. In total, there are 315 patients altogether who are aged 14 and below.
"That is about six percent (from the total number of positive cases in the country)," he told a press conference in Putrajaya today.
As of noon today, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country is 5,182. However, more than half or 2,766 have fully recovered and discharged from the hospital.
Currently, the death toll stands at 84.
Noor Hisham explained that most of the positive cases among children also involved other family members, usually either of their parents.
He said in such cases, the children and their family members would be placed in the same room for treatment and quarantine.
However, those whose parents were tested negative, the parents can still be allowed to care for the children in the hospitals but they have to sign an undertaking form and advised to wear personal protective equipment.
Meanwhile, asked on whether MOH has started conducting detection tests on foreign workers in the country, Noor Hisham said this would be among two groups that they are looking into.
The other group is senior citizens who are residents of old folks home, who are vulnerable to infection.
"We are working together with the Welfare Department (to screen the old folks home residents). And next is to do screening on foreign workers.
"So we should work together with NGOs like Mercy, and also the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
"We are collaborating with them to provide services for foreign workers," Noor Hisham said.
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