COVID-19 | Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has sounded the ominous warning that Sabah's Covid-19 caseloads were set to increase in the near term.

This was because the Health Ministry was intensifying testing efforts in the state, which currently has the highest number of active Covid-19 cases - 1,943 as of noon yesterday.

While increased testing efforts tend to return higher case numbers, perhaps the most worrying issue in Sabah is the mortality figures and the fact that the numbers of people reporting Covid-19 symptoms are on the rise...