Tomorrow marks a year since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country with the first case involving three Chinese nationals who entered Malaysia via Johor from Singapore on Jan 20, 2020.
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The Health director-general said five clusters had also been declared ended on Saturday (Jan 23). The five clusters are the Jalan Rusa, Tower, Cassia Diamond, Bukit Punai and Estate Maju Clusters. Currently the total number of active clusters nationwide is 341, with 84 of them recording more positive cases today, he said in a statement on Saturday.
He said of the 11 new clusters, eight were connected to workplaces while the four others were community, religious and detention centre clusters. In Johor, the Jalan Canggih, Persiaran Tanjung and Jalan Timah Dua clusters were identified while in Sabah, the Kilang Setapak and Kampung Bombalai Clusters were identified.
Malaysia registered another 3,631 new Covid-19 cases today, with 18 more fatalities which marks the pandemic's' deadliest day in the country. The previous highest number of daily deaths was 16, recorded just two weeks earlier on Jan 8
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The Covid-19 Antigen Rapid Test Kit (RTK-Ag) should be conducted by a trained operator, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The Health director-general said the RTK-Ag should also be performed within the first five to seven days following the onset of symptoms for best results.
“More specific for a new cluster with a high positivity rate and when concordance study shows positive predictive value, high specificity.
“RTK-Ag testing confirmatory is recommended when the health system is overburdened. Test kits sensitivity (for RTK-Ag) must be more than 80% and specificity more than 97%, ” he said in his Twitter post on Friday (Jan 22), listing five general recommendations for RTK-Ag testing for Covid-19 confirmatory.