Covid-19 Epidemic Spread Countermeasures: Malaysian Authorities Experience

Abstract

The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in a significant loss of human life around the world, and it poses an extraordinary threat to public health. Almost every government in the world is fighting to stop the disease from spreading. Governments have used harsh measures such as quarantines, lockdowns, social isolation, and movement restrictions. Malaysia reached 22nd place in the Global COVID-19 recovery Index globally. However, the studies that present Malaysia's experiences in countering COVID 19 still very minimum. This study aims to review Malaysia's experience in courting Covid 19 epidemic Spread, the results showed that Malaysian authorities have imposed several measures to encounter covid-19 pandemic such as travel restrictions, movement control, contact tracing, website, and social media, regular press releases, manual contact tracing, contact tracing apps. In fact, the digital contact tracing apps application technology indeed helped Malaysians to slow down the outbreak. It supported policymakers in the suppression of the pandemic and helped in the prevention of any possible wave of the coronavirus outbreak.