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PETALING JAYA: Sabah has recorded more than a third of all Covid-19 cases in the country, as the number of cases in Malaysia surpassed the 20,000 mark on Sunday (October 18).
Health Director General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said a total of 7,439 cumulative cases, or 36.3% of the country’s total cases, have been recorded in Sabah, with 702 new cases reported on Sunday. .
“The increase in the number of cases is due to the large number of samples from Sabah that were sent to the Institute for Medical Research (IMR),” he said during a daily press conference on the Covid-19 situation.
He said there was a delay in the amount of evidence, but that has been clarified.
Dr Noor Hisham said the ministry had conducted a total of 251,030 tests for Covid-19 on people from Sabah, with an infectivity rate of 2.96%.
Dr. Noor Hisham said they were increasing the capacity to perform tests as well as the treatment of patients in the state.
Sabah is currently capable of performing approximately 2,600 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests daily.
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