KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — A total of 98.9 per cent or 3,344 cases out of a total of 3,381 new Covid-19 cases reported today were in Categories One and Two, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.
He said only 37 cases or 1.1 per cent were in categories three, four and five.
“A total of 319 infections were import cases involving 284 citizens and 35 foreigners. The number of recoveries reported today is 3,447 cases,” he said in a statement.
This is the fourth day in a row that new Covid-19 cases have recorded an increase after it dropped below 3,000 cases on Monday.
According to Dr Noor Hisham, six new clusters were identified by the Health Ministry (MOH) today while the country’s infectivity rate stood at 0.96.
He said detailed information on the current situation of the infection and spread of Covid-19 would be uploaded on the website CovidNow at https://covidnow.moh.gov.my and data is updated at midnight every day.
On the current flood situation, he said a total of 56 cases of infectious diseases were detected among flood victims today.
Of that total, 33 cases were acute respiratory tract infections (ARI), skin diseases (nine) and acute gastroenteritis (AGE) (14).
Dr Noor Hisham said as of 3pm today, no new Covid-19 cases were detected among flood victims and this means the number of positive cases among flood victims remains at 465 cases.
— Bernama
