Kudos to our frontliners, who have toiled night and day, battling to keep Covid-19 at bay. But, let’s not be jumping for joy just yet - because, as Health director-general Datuk Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said: “The war has not yet been won; we have not seen the end of Covid-19.”

That’s a matter of fact. The crusade is far from over. Just check out the global figures. Covid-19 cases have upped exponentially, at more than 2.5 million cases and deaths at 178,558 as of 6pm yesterday. On Tuesday, more than 90,000 people worldwide had contracted the infection in a single day. And some 80 per cent of the positive cases are in Europe and the United States.

China, which reportedly had “beaten the coronavirus”, is now recording new cases, and so is South Korea and Japan. On April 18, cases in Japan topped 10,000, and the government ordered a nationwide state of emergency, which its prime minister, Shinzo Abe said, was necessary “to invoke a sense of urgency” to prevent the virus’ spread across porous city borders.

Glaringly evident is Singapore, which was known as “the global standard bearer” for subduing the contagion in its early days. It had done everything right after recording its first case on Jan 23. The government had shut the borders to populations likely to carry the virus, and provided free testing and treatment. But schools and universities were still open and businesses were on as usual. Over the past few days, however, the cases had more than doubled, at more than 10,000 cases up to yesterday. On Tuesday, the republic extended restrictions until early June.

Read more at: https://www.nst.com.my/…/nst-leader-covid-19-crusade-not-ov…

Source: NST Online

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