Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic ensue a significant public health threat across the globe. It affect every layers of community including the indigenous people known as Orang Asli in the interior part of the country. Established for person to person transmission enables this SARS-CoV-2 infection spread rapidly, and the close knit culture among Orang Asli community catalyst the outbreak even further. Not only adding to the country 's Covid-19 statistic, the data also recorded death tolls among Orang Asli due to Covid-19.To date ( 30th June, 2022 ), a cumulative of 19,652 Covid-19 positive cases has been reported among Orang Asli for year 2022, with 214 deaths which contributes to 1.09 of case fatality rate (CFR). Meanwhile the 2021 data showed a total of 17,861 Covid-19 positive cases and 180 deaths among Orang Asli community. Following a year of dreadful phase combating the pandemic in year 2020, the Covid-19 vaccination programme 's initiated in early 2021 enabled Malaysia 's transition to endemic phase. The Ministry of Health, Malaysia take up challenges to ensure every eligible citizens including the Orang Asli population received the Covid-19 vaccination. The mobile health teams being deployed to the interior and rural area of Orang Asli settlement for the vaccination outreach programme 's. To date ( 30th June, 2022 ), more than 80% of Orang Asli 's adult population had completed the primary series of Covid-19 vaccine, whilst 75% of Orang Asli 's adolescent and 30% of their children had also completed the vaccine. Despite of all the hurdles and predicaments due to logistic issue, continuous effort is ongoing to ensure a substantive vaccine coverage among Orang Asli as one of the Covid-19 preventive measure.
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@proceedings{APCPH2022-P-34,
title = {Delivering Health Services to the Rural: Combating COVID-19 Pandemic Among Orang Asli},
author = {Norhasliza Abu Bakar and Arifah Abdul Rahman and Abdul Hamid Jaafar},
url = {https://apcph.cphm.my/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/APCPH2022-P-34.pdf
https://apcph.cphm.my/wp-content/uploads/wpforms/1176-1e04940bb5d885bf8711ed19095a89ed/APCPH2022-P-34.pdf-DR-NORHASLIZA-ABU-BAKAR-8fcee13ede273ac4f27c46cc9c1733dd.pdf},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-08-02},
urldate = {2022-08-02},
issue = {7},
abstract = {The Covid-19 pandemic ensue a significant public health threat across the globe. It affect every layers of community including the indigenous people known as Orang Asli in the interior part of the country. Established for person to person transmission enables this SARS-CoV-2 infection spread rapidly, and the close knit culture among Orang Asli community catalyst the outbreak even further. Not only adding to the country 's Covid-19 statistic, the data also recorded death tolls among Orang Asli due to Covid-19.To date ( 30th June, 2022 ), a cumulative of 19,652 Covid-19 positive cases has been reported among Orang Asli for year 2022, with 214 deaths which contributes to 1.09 of case fatality rate (CFR). Meanwhile the 2021 data showed a total of 17,861 Covid-19 positive cases and 180 deaths among Orang Asli community. Following a year of dreadful phase combating the pandemic in year 2020, the Covid-19 vaccination programme 's initiated in early 2021 enabled Malaysia 's transition to endemic phase. The Ministry of Health, Malaysia take up challenges to ensure every eligible citizens including the Orang Asli population received the Covid-19 vaccination. The mobile health teams being deployed to the interior and rural area of Orang Asli settlement for the vaccination outreach programme 's. To date ( 30th June, 2022 ), more than 80% of Orang Asli 's adult population had completed the primary series of Covid-19 vaccine, whilst 75% of Orang Asli 's adolescent and 30% of their children had also completed the vaccine. Despite of all the hurdles and predicaments due to logistic issue, continuous effort is ongoing to ensure a substantive vaccine coverage among Orang Asli as one of the Covid-19 preventive measure.},
howpublished = {published online at https://apcph.cphm.my},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Public Health Development Division, Ministry of Health, Malaysia},
keywords = {Covid-19, Orang Asli in Malaysia},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}