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Strengthening Surveillance Activity for COVID-19

Ongoing Influenza like Illness (ILI) Surveillance Program - Upon alerted by unusual cases of
respiratory illness of unknown aetiology reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019, a
close monitoring of ILI Surveillance activities were heightened to support early response and
rapid case detection towards potential outbreak of COVID-19 in Malaysia

Now, we still continue the close monitoring and surveillance for both ILI and Severe Acute
Respiratory Infection (SARI) activities with the purpose to detect any transmission of SAR-
CoV-2 in the community. We do this by expanding the sentinel sites (in health facilities)
throughout all the states.