An analysis of current scenario of COVID-19 in Malaysia

Abstract

The advent of Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) has created a new threat in terms of economy and life. Frankly, the adverse effects of COVID-19 can put our life at risk if we are contaminated. The recent promising cases in Malaysia have certainly intensified from day to day, going from bad to worse. The primary factor that causes the raising problem of COVID cases is the absence of cooperation between Malaysian and government. This research aims at visualizing the current situation of COVID-19 and thus raising consciousness among Malaysians to solve this dilemma. To fulfill the objectives, there are two stages of processes need to be performed. Using the dataset from Internet, the first section would use Microsoft Excel to create visualization tools such as a pie chart and a line chart. Next, the second part will scrap the Twitter data to explore how Malaysians are aware of COVID by using “Twint” function in Python software. The finding reveals that current COVID situation in Malaysia is in a severe stage since the chart shows that it has an exponential growth.  Moreover, the Twitter activity has indicated that the people are not paying attention to the COVID topic shared by Malaysia Ministry of Healthy (MOH) Consequently, the new positive cases increase dramatically after September 2020 in Malaysia. In conclusion, the people are more concern to the COVID news from MOH during the implementation of MCO and CMCO. The people lose concern when the number of cases dropped or the MCO and CMCO is ended.