DG must answer for calling off meetings, says MP

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PETALING JAYA: The director-general of health must answer for recommending the suspension of parliamentary meetings for two weeks, an MP said today, especially as the “CT value” cited had never been used as an indicator for public health measures.

Bandar Kuching MP Dr Kelvin Yii said the indicator used by director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah was not logical, and there is no reason that Parliament cannot continue to function, four days after Covid-19 cases were detected.

“Please show us hard data and not just give general statements and justify,” he urged the health DG.

Noor Hisham said earlier today that the health ministry had recommended that all parliamentary meetings be suspended for two weeks, citing high infectivity rates after a Covid-19 outbreak was detected on Thursday.

He said the “CT value” or the cycle threshold (a measure of how soon after an RT-PCR test that the virus is detected in a sample) of the samples taken during screenings at the Parliament was low, indicating higher viral load and higher risks of spread.


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