KUALA LUMPUR: New Covid-19 cases in the country dropped slightly today to 21,072 cases, compared with 22,802 yesterday, after seven consecutive days of recording an upward trend.
Health director-general, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in a post on his Twitter account, said that the cumulative number of cases had now increased to 3,040,235.
Of the total new cases, 99.59 per cent, or 20,986 cases, were in categories one and two while 0.41 per cent, or 86 cases, were in categories three, four and five.
He said the Covid-19 infectivity rate (Rt) was 1.49 yesterday, with Labuan registering the highest Rt of 2.14, followed by Sarawak (1.67); Sabah (1.66); Perlis (1.47) and Penang (1.46).
-Bernama