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GEORGE TOWN: Health inspectors investigating the spread of hand disease, foot-and-mouth disease and foot-and-mouth disease in Penang narrowed until the supermarket.
The HFMD virus was found on the handlebars of trolleys and on children's equipment in supermarkets.
Last week, the Department of Health ran shopping centers to clean up their trolleys, walkways and benches. HFMD is spread by contact with nasal secretions, saliva and feces, and the fluids of an infected person's blisters.
A person infected with HFMD is the most contagious during the course of the disease, no known treatment is available. fever, sore throat, mouth ulcers, rashes or lethargy.
The disease spread rapidly among children, mainly in the urban district of the northeast of the island
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Dr. Afif Bahardin, Chairman of the State Committee on Health, said that the number of cases had dropped for three consecutive days.
"We recorded 78 cases on Wednesday, followed by 52 and 51 Thursday and Friday" However, the cumulative number of cases is still high at 2,341 so far this year compared to 1,099 in 2017 ", he declared at a press conference held yesterday
10 nursery schools, seven kindergartens, six kindergartens and a childcare center.
Schools still closed are SK Sungai Bakap, SJKC Sum Min 1, SK Saujana Indah and SJKC Moh Ghee, Pusat, SJKC Beng Teik and SJKC Kwang Hwa
"Nine victims underwent treatment in hospitals," he said.
Commenting on allegations in social media on HFMD-related deaths, Dr. Afif told reporters a review of mortality by the Ministry of Health.
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