Covid R-naught drops, too early to say we’ve past Omicron peak: KJ

 

The country’s infectivity rate (R-naught) was at 1.06 yesterday, a 0.02 decrease from the 1.08 reported on Saturday.

Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin in a tweet said although the country’s daily R-naught had steadily dropped to 1.05, it is too early to say that Malaysia has gone past the Omicron variant peak even with 96 percent of active cases recovering at home and hospital capacity is under control.

“If the trend continues, full border opening and more relaxed domestic measures will follow,” he said.

Meanwhile, on his social media updates, Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Perak reported the highest R-naught at 1.32, followed by Labuan (1.27), Sarawak (1.24) and Terengganu (1.22).

Malaysia reported 24,466 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, with only 105 were of categories three, four and five, whereas 24,361 cases were of categories one dan two.

- Bernama