PUTRAJAYA, April 28 ― The daily number of new positive Covid-19 cases in the country is expected to drop to single digits by the middle of May, said Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. 

He said this projection was based on the trend where the new positive cases reported daily had dropped to double digits in the past week.

However, he said whether this target can be achieved or not depends on the people’s adherence to the new norms they have been practising since the movement control order (MCO) was implemented on March 18.

"If there is no necessity to go out, stay at home...this is our message. Now the safest thing to do is to stay at home; no infection from one person to another.

"The number of infective cases has also been dropping. We hope the figure of 1,700 (infective) cases now will drop to 1,000 and then to 500,” he said at a daily media briefing on Covid-19 here today. ― Bernama