Covid-19: Malaysia charts 3,543 new infections in the last 24 hours

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Labuan Health Department personnel conducting Covid-19 and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests at the Membedai Health Clinic -- Bernama Photo


SHAH ALAM -- Malaysia charts 3,543 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours, showing an upward trend since yesterday, according to data released by the Ministry of Health.

In a Twitter post today, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah also stated that the new infections have tallied to 2,776,669 cumulative Covid-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.

However, despite the upward trend in cases, Dr Noor Hisham also informed via a Twitter post that the nation's Covid-19 infectivity rate or R0/Rt fell to 0.97 from 0.99 yesterday.

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