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Medical workers collect a swab sample from a woman to be tested for Covid-19 at Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, on February 16, 2021. — Picture by REUTERS

New Covid-19 cases drop, with 2,641 cases reported today — Health D-G

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 — Covid-19 infections in Malaysia continue to decline with 2,641 new cases reported today compared to 2,888 cases yesterday, bringing the country’s total to 2,788,860.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said there were 2,808 recoveries as of noon today, for a total of 2,717,422 recoveries so far.

“From the cases reported today, 57 cases, or 2.2 per cent, were category three, four and five, while 2,584 cases (97.8 per cent) were category one and two.

“There were 253 cases requiring intensive care treatment and 106 cases requiring respiratory support. Also four new clusters were detected today,” he said in a statement regarding Covid-19 developments today.

The country’s infectivity rate (Rt) was 0.98 with Labuan having the highest value of 1.19, followed by Sabah (1.07), Kuala Lumpur (1.06), Melaka (1.03), Negeri Sembilan (1.02) and Kedah (1.00).

Also, Dr Noor Hisham said that the Health Ministry detected only one Covid-19 positive case among flood evacuees as of 3 pm, bringing the total to 470 cases.

He said the ministry also detected 23 cases of infectious disease involving flood evacuees, out of which 10 were skin disease cases, nine acute gastroenteritis (AGE) cases and four acute respiratory infection (ARI) cases.

— Bernama

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