Life After Covid19: The New Normal

Abstract

“If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; if the plague breaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place”, reported by Sahih Al-Bukhari. This was the phrase quoted by Prophet Muhammad 14 centuries ago concerning both in disease spread and prevention. The relevancy of this statement is now widely seen and surge by
the social media in a hashtag of “stay home” on an international level due to pandemic of COVID-19 disease.
      The Year 2020 is supposed to be a turning point for Malaysia as she was promised to become a developed nation by then. However, the dream turned to a nightmare with many unprecedented changes in the political scenario and the major health challenge facing the outbreak of virus COVID-19 disease, the official name as announced on 11th February
2020, which stands for the coronavirus disease that was discovered in 2019.
       Malaysia recorded the first confirmed cases on January 25, 2020. These were visitors from Guangdong and Wuhan in China, which most experts agree was the source of the original outbreak. It was only two days before, on 23rd January 2020, Wuhan had been placed into full lockdown of her population and following the government’s acknowledgement
of life-threatening epidemic.