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KUALA LUMPUR, April 29 – The Ministry of Health (MOH) reported today 94 new cases of Covid-19, of which 72 were imported from Malays who returned from Indonesia.
This generates new local cases with a new low record of only 22 cases, the lowest since the Motion Control Order (MCO) was implemented.
This positive trend followed the 31 new cases yesterday, which was the previous low record.
The last time new daily cases fell below 30 was March 12, before the second wave of Covid-19 infection here.
The total number of Covid 19 cases now stands at 5,945 and 100 deaths, with no new deaths reported today.
Director General of Health Datuk, Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, also said that 55 Covid-19 patients were discharged today, bringing the recovered total to 4,087 recovered cases or 68.7% of the total.
He also said the department has been conducting ongoing clinical surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) by taking random samples from patients and people in clinics, hospitals, and public and private laboratories. .
A total of 6,100 clinical samples were taken, of which 71, or 1.16 percent, tested positive for Covid-19, eight of 1,322 ILI samples, and 63 of 4,778 SARI samples.
Dr. Noor Hisham said this was a drastic reduction between April 25, where only three samples of 2,168 tested positive (0.14 percent) and March 28, where 33 samples tested positive against 263 samples taken (11.15 percent). ).
In the private sector, 84 samples tested positive against 22,081 tests performed in private laboratories (0.38 percent).
“This surveillance acts as an early detection and early warning system for the spread of Covid-19 in Malaysia. We will continue this even after the motion control order is lifted, ”he said.
