Despite a surge in Covid-19 cases and the spread of the Omicron variant, people continue to throng the Bukit Bintang area, February 9, 2022. – Picture by Hari Anggara
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 15 — Daily Covid-19 cases in the country have risen again, with 22,133 Covid-19 cases logged by the Health Ministry today.
This is an increase of 818 cases compared to the previous day’s 21,315 new infections.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah noted that 99.34 per cent, or 21,987 of the cases recorded today were in Categories 1 and 2 — meaning they were either asymptomatic or had symptoms but not a lung infection or worse.
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* A previous version of this story contained an error which has since been corrected.