Kelantan records highest infectivity rate in Malaysia


KOTA BARU (Bernama): Kelantan on Sunday (April 18) recorded the highest Covid-19 infectivity rate (Rt) or R-nought (R0) in the country, at 1.32, compared with the national rate of 1.19.

Read more here: Covid-19: 2,195 new cases bring total to 375,054

Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob said that this was due to a drastic surge in the number of Covid-19 cases, forcing the implementation of the movement control order (MCO) in seven districts in the state from Friday until April 29.

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