PETALING JAYA: New Covid-19 cases have increased by over 1,500 cases on Friday (Feb 4) with 7,234 cases reported. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the cumulative number of infections in the country was now 2,895,014. "Of the new cases recorded on Friday, 234 were import cases involving 92 Malaysians and 142 foreigners," he said in a statement on Friday. On the country's infectivity rate Dr Noor Hisham said the national R-nought rate stood at 1.11. "Kelantan, Terengganu and Sarawak recorded a value of 1.04 respectively while Labuan recorded a zero infectivity rate," he said.

Source: The Star February 05, 2022 02:45 UTC