As announced yesterday (April 27), the total number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in Malaysia is 5,820 cases, with 3,975 recovered cases and 98 death cases.
According to The Star, Malaysia has a 67% recovery rate, as the data showed. The Health Director-General, Datuk Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah mentioned on his daily updates of COVID-19 live conference yesterday that this was a success of the first and second phases of Movement Control Order (MCO), which started on March 18.
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“We are now in a recovery phase. We have been able to flatten the curve and have prevented the exponential surge of cases, ” said Dr. Noor Hisham at the ministry’s daily Covid-19 press conference, as reported in The Star.
Another good news is that Malaysia has obtained a double-digits daily COVID-19 confirmed cases for 11 days in a row. Meanwhile, there are 1,764 active COVID-19 cases in Malaysia. They are currently receiving treatment at health facilities.
At present, Malaysia could test for about 16,635 samples per day and is on its way to conducting 22,000 tests per day, as revealed by Dr. Noor Hisham. He also pointed out that the World Health Organization's (WHO) benchmark, ONLY 10% out of all COVID-19 tests should be positive. And Malaysia is doing great as we are getting about 4% positive cases out of all tested samples, which is better than the WHO benchmark.
“This shows our targeted approach in COVID-19 testing, where we aim for high-risk localities, is showing results, ” he added.
