KUALA LUMPUR, April 29 — The Ministry of Health (MOH) reported 94 new Covid-19 cases today, with 72 of those were imported from Malaysians returning from Indonesia.
This makes new local cases at a new low record of just 22 cases, the lowest since the movement control order (MCO) was implemented.
This positive trend followed yesterday’s 31 new cases, which was the previous low record.
The last time daily new cases were below 30 was back in 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.
Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah also said 55 Covid-19 patients were discharged today, bringing the total recovered to 4,087 cases recovered or 68.7 per cent of the total.
He also said that 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 at public and private clinics, hospitals and labs.
A total 6,100 clinical samples were taken — of which 71, or 1.16 per cent tested positive for Covid-19, eight from 1,322 ILI samples and 63 from 4,778 SARI samples.
Dr Noor Hisham said this was a drastic reduction from between April 25 where only three samples out of 2,168 tested positive (0.14 per cent) and March 28 where 33 samples tested positive against 263 samples taken (11.15 per cent).
In the private sector, 84 samples tested positive against 22,081 tests ran in private labs (0.38 per cent).
“These 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 movement control order is lifted,” he said.
