Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah sounded the alarm this morning as the curve of Covid-19 infections began showing an upward trend.<br /><br />"We need strong social responsibility and compliance to flatten the curve again," he posted on Facebook.<br /><br />Noor Hisham’s announcement comes a day after the national Covid-19 effective reproduction number - a measure of the disease's infectivity - hit 1.00. The number had been hovering around 0.87 for most of the first half of March.<br /><br />The last time the national R-naught (R0) was at 1.0 or above was on Feb 4, when it was at 1.09.<br /><br />Full story: https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/568127
