The Health Ministry has announced that the country is facing a small Covid-19 wave, given a spike in case numbers recently.<br /><br />Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said that between October 23 and 29, new Covid-19 cases have increased by 16.5 percent to 16,917 cases from the previous week’s 14,250 cases.<br /><br />Khairy noted, however, that bed usage in intensive care units (ICU) had only increased by 2 percent, indicating that Covid-19 patients were not facing serious symptoms.<br /><br />“In other words, we are now facing a small (Covid-19) wave. It is uncertain if this small wave will become a big wave, that depends on the actions of the community within these next two weeks. "<br /><br />He added that the upward trend of cases was possibly due to the Omicron XBB subvariant.
