PETALING JAYA: The number of new Covid-19 cases in the country daily continues to show improvement, with fewer last week than the week before, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
PETALING JAYA: The number of Covid-19 cases recorded per day is likely to remain above the 4,000 mark despite the negative infectivity rate of 0.97 currently.
SEREMBAN: The spike in Covid-19 cases in Negri Sembilan is due to increased testing in the state as well as a more imported cases, says its health committee chairman S. Veerapan.
PETALING JAYA: The infectivity rate (R-nought or R0) of Covid-19 in the country has dipped below 1.0 during the first week of the lockdown, recording 0.99 on June 6, down from 1.07 on June 1.
On Twitter, health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah shared data showing that the number of Covid-19 cases recorded daily had significantly reduced, after it peaked at 9,020 on May 29 when the infectivity rate was at 1.16.
However, the number of cases remain above 6,000 with 6,241 cases on June 6, with 2,178 cases recorded in Selangor alone.
The Health Ministry also forecast that new cases would have gone above 10,000 if the national infectivity rate rose above 1.2 and standard operating procedures were not followed.
PETALING JAYA: As Malaysia enters a two-week nationwide total lockdown on Tuesday, health experts say the vaccination drive must also be accelerated to reduce Covid-19 cases and give healthcare frontliners much-needed breathing room.