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And to explain this to the common folk in the street, it means whatever goes into GitHub stays there and cannot be altered. Likewise, the public have full access to every detail of COVID-19 data, if we know where to find and process them.

Image courtesy of COVIDNOW, Ministry Of Health

It was only several days ago that newly detected COVID-19 cases in Malaysia touched new highs and this trend does not seem to be abating. On February 19th 2022, the country recorded another new daily high of 28,825 cases.

In the interest of transparency, the Ministry of Health (MOH) uses respository services at GitHub to store and make available COVID-19 related data to the public. Github is a provider of distributed version control and source code management functionality tools. It provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management and continuous integration.

And to explain this to the common folk in the street, it means whatever goes into GitHub stays there and cannot be altered. Likewise, the public have full access to every detail of COVID-19 data, if we know where to find and process them. Here’s the link to MOH’s GitHub repository .

More importantly, it is the breakdown of the new cases that tells the true picture of what is currently going on in the country. And the following are the latest set of data from the past 7 days of raw information posted by MOH, containing detailed breakdown of the numbers according to its respective categories :-

Valuable raw COVID-19 data is archived and searchable at MOH’s COVIDNOW repository in GitHub.

In an announcement made in July 2021, MOH said that with the repository, the public can find anonymous granular data on hospital admissions, critical care (ICU), & even MOH’s cluster-based analysis of transmission. This data is built from the on-the-ground work of dedicated Malaysian frontliners & CPRCs officers, shared by state & district officers every single day.