PETALING JAYA: With the infectivity rate rising to 1.0, health experts believe that the Delta variant, rising workplace clusters and sporadic cases are major contributors to the high number of Covid-19 cases.
Based on the daily Covid-19 reports, Universiti Putra Malaysia medical epidemiologist Assoc Prof Dr Malina Osman said most of the new clusters came from the workplace, contributing to the rising infectivity rate, or the R-naught (R0) value.
“With the presence of the Delta variant and other variants of concern (VOCs), together with poor SOP adherence, more people get infected, ” she said when contacted yesterday.
Although the country had been increasing its vaccination rates, she said the targeted immunisation had to be at least 40% of the population.
