A screenshot from Dr Noor Hisham s Facebook post showing that the R value has hit 1.0 on June 28 PETALING JAYA: Malaysia s Covid-19 infectivity rate (R value) has gone up to 1.0, signalling a possible rise in cases in the days ahead.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a post on his Facebook page at about 4am Tuesday (June 29) wrote that the country s R value recorded a figure of 1.0 for June 28.
The R value refers to the number of people that a person who has the coronavirus will infect.
If the R value is 1 for example, it means that on average, one infected person will spread Covid-19 to one other individual.
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