KUALA LUMPUR, May 13 -- The Ministry of Health (MOH) managed to reduce the 'R0' or 'R-nought' for the Covid-19 outbreak in the country because of the positive steps taken by the government and the compliance of Malaysians, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.

In his daily press briefing broadcast "live" from Putrajaya, Dr Noor Hisham said that the effectiveness of the government's approach can be proven by the use of modelling and forecasting methods developed by the National Health Institute (NHI) and the MOH, where four rounds of the movement control order (MCO) proved successful in flattening the Covid-19 curve in the country.

'R-nought' is a mathematical term indicating how contagious an infectious disease is....