KUALA LUMPUR, March 29 — Malaysia has so far carried out 35,516 tests for Covid-19, with 2,320 of these cases or 6.5 per cent testing positive, the Health director-general and Health Ministry has said when sharing the latest data.

Out of these 2,320 cases testing positive for Covid, about 1,207 or half of the country’s positive cases are those from the cluster that attended the mass tabligh gathering at the Jamek Sri Petaling mosque in Kuala Lumpur from February 27 to March 1, the data shows.

In a chart released this morning, the full breakdown of the 2,320 positive cases as of yesterday are 1,207 (tabligh cluster), 586 (close contact), 461 (suspected cases or patients under investigation (PUI), 64 (the Health Ministry’s own surveillance to detect Covid-19 cases), two from humanitarian missions and zero from cruises.

For the 35,316 Covid-19 tests that were conducted, 24,727 or the bulk of test results have returned negative, while 8,469 or slightly less than a quarter are pending results.

The full breakdown of the 24,727 that tested negative are 8,913 (close contact), 6,648 (tabligh cluster), 4,474 (PUI), 4,226 (Covid-19 surveillance), 366 (humanitarian mission/embassy), 100 from cruises. This also means that all of the 100 cases from cruises have tested negative.

As for the 8,469 that are still awaiting their test results, these are 4,645 of the tabligh cluster, 2,491 of the PUI category, 1,225 (close contact), 81 (mission/embassy) and 27 (Covid-19 surveillance).

– Sumber dari Malay Mail –