PETALING JAYA: The number of daily Covid-19 cases could reach 8,000 a day in March if the infectivity rate – known as the R-naught (R0) – stays at 1.2, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pic).
Referring to a Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Removed (SEIR) model on the forecasts of daily cases from January to May, the Health director-general said daily cases could reach 5,000 by mid-February and 3,000 cases in the fourth week of January.
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