Kota Kinabalu: Sabah’s caseload breached the 2,000 mark with 2,069 cases on Tuesday as the State’s infectivity rate (RO) rose to 1.54, higher than the nation’s infectivity rate of 1.32, said Sabah’s Covid-19 spokesperson Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun.“This means that the rate of Covid-19 transmission in Sabah is faster, causing the State’s caseload to rise higher than other States in the country,” he said in a statement, Tuesday.
Sabah also recorded its 19th education cluster in Kota Marudu on Tuesday, involving students at SMK Kota Marudu 2, named as the Jalan Kebulian Cluster.
“The index case is an 18-year-old female local, who is a Form Five student living at the school’s hostel.
“She started having symptoms on Feb 2 and was tested positive with an RTK test the next day. She has been quarantined and given treatment,” said Masidi, adding that contact screenings found a total of 16 individuals positive in this cluster to date.
Two deaths were recorded, one each in Beaufort and Keningau.
On the caseload, Masidi said sporadic infections continue to rise as 51.96 per cent of cases were symptomatic – a clear indicator that transmission is widespread within the community.
However, Masidi said 99.37 per cent of cases are mild cases, with 2,056 out of 2,069 cases being category one and two infections, while five are in category three, six in category four and two in category five.
He said seven districts recorded three-digit cases, namely Kota Kinabalu (395), Sandakan (267), Tuaran (192), Papar (161), Penampang (161), Lahad Datu (137) and Tawau (113).
“Some 15 of 27 districts in Sabah recorded double to triple-digit increases, namely Papar (+100), Lahad Datu (+80), Ranau (+50), Tuaran (+42), Sipitang (+33), Kota Belud (+32), Telupid (+25), Kota
Kinabalu (+24), Kuala Penyu (+24),
Penampang (+23) and Beaufort (+20),” he added.
Some 328 Covid-19 patients have been discharged from the hospital while 1,324 patients are currently receiving treatment at hospitals, low risk quarantine and treatment centres (PKRCs), prisons/temporary detention centres and private facilities.
On Sabah’s immunisation programme, Masidi said 9,050 individuals were vaccinated on Feb 7, of which 7,574 were adults while 98 were teenagers and 1,378 were children.
As of Feb 7, he said a total of 2,411,094 individuals have completed both doses, of which 76.06 per cent were adults, while 2,457,426 have gotten their first dose, of which 76.76 per cent were adults.
Masidi added that a total of 337,494 teenagers have received their first dose, while 313,121 have completed both doses, which is 72.15 per cent of the teenage population. A total of 2,488 children have received their first dose.
