.jpg "A man looks out of the window from a shoplot in Kuala Lumpur as the 14-day ‘total lockdown’ commenced June 1, 2021. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa")
KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 — Malaysia’s seven-day average for Covid-19 cases has remained steady near 7,500 for the fourth consecutive day, suggesting that the latest surge from the ongoing third wave has peaked.
According to data Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah released this morning, the effective reproduction number (Rt) for Covid-19 has also declined again.
“The Covid-19 infectivity rate, or R0/Rt, predicted from daily cases on June 2 for the entire country is 1.06,” he said.
Rt measures the average number of people from the remaining vulnerable population that each new Covid-19 patient could infect. It must be under 1.0 in order for Covid-19 to be suppressed.
Yesterday, Malaysia reported 7,703 new Covid-19 infections, nearly a tenth higher than the previous day but also the second day of increased numbers.
However, the past four days represent the longest period that the rolling-average has stayed flat since the start of May, when the government began imposing various movement control orders in an attempt to respond to the country’s worsening Covid-19 situation.
One caveat to the flattening average was the country’s persistently high positivity rate, which again exceeded the World Health Organization’s benchmark to gauge if countries were testing enough for Covid-19.
Yesterday, Malaysia’s positivity rate was 7.68 per cent from 100,288 tests performed.
The WHO recommends a positivity rate of 5 per cent, with higher figures indicating possible under-reporting of cases due to insufficient testing. - malaymail
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