CORONAVIRUS | Data on active Covid-19 cases by locality (mukim) show that for the past one week, most states in Malaysia are turning into green zones.
Of the close to 1,200 localities monitored by the Ministry of Health, only five have more than 40 active cases each.
About 75 percent are green localities, with zero active cases.
In states of Perak, Kedah, Penang, Perlis, Terengganu and Kelantan, there are no localities marked as red or orange zones.
This means all localities in these states have less than 20 cases.
Red zones denote localities with more than 40 active cases while orange is more than 20.
Localities with one to 20 active cases are marked yellow while those with one to 19 are yellow. Green localities have zero active cases.
The daily data are released separately by state health departments, except for the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan.
Data from these 13 states are compiled by the Kini News Lab and published in the newly-launched state pages in Malaysiakini's Covid-19 Tracker.
The state pages can be located through a drop-down menu on the Malaysia tab of the tracker.
Kuching, Kota Samarahan and Klang Valley epicentres
Based on yesterday's new cases, the only localities which recorded new cases are the Sarawak localities of Miri (one new case), Kuching (five) and Kota Samarahan (three) plus localities in Kuala Lumpur.
The Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur Health Department does not publish locality data.
However, Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah yesterday said of the 39 new cases reported in Kuala Lumpur up to 12 noon on April 25, one was imported, 23 others were found at Selangor and Malayan Mansions and three were located in the wider Masjid India area.
The Masjid India area is under the purview of the Lembah Pantai district health department. Most cases found there involved foreign patients.
On April 24, Sarawak, Selangor and Kuala Lumpur were the top three contributors of new cases.
Penang two days away from being 'green state'
As of yesterday, the data for Perak, Kedah, Penang, Perlis, Terengganu and Kelantan show these states do not have a single active case, that is cases still in treatment.
For example, Perlis has zero cases in treatment while Kedah and Penang have merely five and three cases left in treatment respectively.
Penang had its last reported new case on April 13, making it just two days shy of attaining the status of a green state with no new cases reported in 14 days.
Kedah's latest case was reported on April 22, but this was an imported case, the state health department said.
Meanwhile, Pahang and Sabah have no red localities, while Johor, Negri Sembilan and Selangor have one locality each in Ulu Benut (79 active cases), Labu (67) and Hulu Langat (64).
This is likely because of active clusters there, namely the Bandar Baru Ibrahim Majid cluster in Johor, Sendayan cluster in Negri Sembilan and the Sungai Lui cluster in Selangor.
Melaka does not have a red locality but is recorded to have some 40 patients in treatment, who are recent Malaysian overseas returnees quarantined in Malacca.
The cost of MCO
Noor Hisham said the ministry aims to protect the green zones, which could be a village, a subdistrict (mukim) or a district, by imposing strict border controls.
This implies barring non-residents from entering these green zones and vice versa - a reverse of the enhanced movement control order (enhanced MCO), where residents in areas severely hit are barred from leaving the zone and vice versa.
Earlier, Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said rules may be vastly different for those living in the green zones compared to red zones, where tighter movement controls may be imposed.
On Friday, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced the MCO extension from April 28 to May 12.
He said for each day of the MCO, which renders most businesses shut, the Malaysian economy bleeds RM2.4 billion.
From March 15 to April 20, some 7,159 employees were retrenched or took up voluntary separation schemes offered by employers.
However, the SME Association estimates that at least a million of the 10 million workers employed by small and medium enterprises could lose their jobs due to the MCO. - Mkini
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