Covid-19 Watch: 119 Omicron cases detected since Feb 9, national Rt now 1.51, says Health DG

PETALING JAYA: A total of 119 Covid-19 cases in the last three days have been confirmed to be of the Omicron variant.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in his daily statement on Friday (Feb 11), said that 188 variant of concern (VOC) cases were reported from Wednesday (Feb 9) to Friday.

Of that, 69 cases were found to be of the Delta variant with the remaining identified as Omicron variant cases.

In that time frame, Selangor recorded 51 Omicron variant cases, the most out of all the states and territories.

As of now, a total of 815 cases in the country have been confirmed to be of the Omicron variant.

The infectivity rate within the states had also seen a jump, with Labuan recording an Rt number (pronounced R-naught) of 2.17.

Sarawak recorded an Rt of 1.90, the second-highest recorded on Friday (Feb 11).

The current national infectivity rate is at 1.51.

A total of 20,939 new Covid-19 cases were reported on Friday, with 5,807 recoveries.

From that, 118 cases have been listed as categories three, four and five, 0.6% of the daily infections.