ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in a significant loss of human life around the world, and it poses an extraordinary threat to public health. Almost every government in the world is fighting to stop the disease from spreading. Governments have used harsh measures such as quarantines, lockdowns, social isolation, and movement restrictions. Malaysia reached 22nd place in the Global COVID-19 recovery Index globally. However, the studies that present Malaysia's experiences in countering COVID 19 still very minimum. This study aims to review Malaysia's experience in courting Covid 19 epidemic Spread, the results showed that Malaysian authorities have imposed several measures to encounter covid-19 pandemic such as travel restrictions, movement control, contact tracing, website, and social media, regular press releases, manual contact tracing, contact tracing apps. In fact, the digital contact tracing apps application technology indeed helped Malaysians to slow down the outbreak. It supported policymakers in the suppression of the pandemic and helped in the prevention of any possible wave of the coronavirus outbreak. © 2022 IEEE.
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments to implement strategies for contact tracing due to the disease's ease of spread. The Malaysian government has sought to develop and implement a digital contact-tracking application to make it easier and faster to detect the spread;the system has become an integral part of the exit strategy from mandated lockdowns. These applications keep track of the user's proximity with others who are in the system to inform them early on if they are at a risk of infection. The effectiveness of these applications depends on the willingness of users to install and allow the application to track their location at all times. Therefore, this research aims to identify the factors that would stimulate or slow down the adoption of contact-tracing apps. © 2023 by the authors.