Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the recent spike in Malaysia’s Covid-19 cases is mainly due to the Health Ministry’s active case detection at hotspots.<br /><br />He said this spike is expected because of the active case detection at the places where the ministry has implemented the enhanced movement control order (EMCO).<br /><br />For example, in Kampung Sungai Lui, the ministry managed to pick up 41 students from a madrasah tahfiz in that area who are Covid-19 positive through the active testing.<br /><br />217 new cases were announced on Friday - the second highest daily jump for the country.<br /><br />Read more at https://bit.ly/3bJegX2<br /><br />WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news<br />SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar<br />LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline
