No COVID-19 relapse detected yet, says Health DG

KUALA LUMPUR (April 12): There is no recorded case in the country of a COVID-19 patient being reinfected, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said, reported the Malay Mail  today.

Dr Noor Hisham explained that reinfections were possible but the closest the country has come to anything like reinfections were cases in which recovered patients continued to showed “weak positive” results.

“From among the cases discharged, there are around two or three patients who are still showing weak positives, which is at the stage of virus shedding,” he said but he also assured that such patients “were no longer contagious at this point”, the news portal reported him saying.

“So, in terms of cases still showing weak positives, there are only these few. There is still a possibility they could be reinfected but so far we have not had any,” he explained during his daily Covid-19 media conference.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) toda announced 153 new confirmed COVID-19 positive cases as of noon today, together with 113 recoveries.

The new confirmed cases bring the country's tally to 4,683, while the total number of recoveries climbed to 2,108.

Meanwhile, three more deaths were reported, which pushed the country's death toll from the coronavirus to 76, or 1.62% of total cases. This leaves 2,499 Covid-19 patients being treated in hospitals now, of whom 66 are in intensive care.

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