There has been no respite from the Covid-19 virus since the start of the third wave of infections in September last year as Malaysia’s cumulative cases look all set to surge past the 200,000 mark.

With 4,094 new cases reported yesterday (including eight imported cases), the nation’s total number of positive cases now stood at 198,208.

Malaysia is now bogged down with 43,192 active cases and, as of yesterday, 372 active clusters including nine new ones.

On Jan 23 – two days before the “first anniversary” of the detection of the novel coronavirus in Malaysia – 4,275 new cases were recorded. New daily infections...