The coun­try record­ed its high­est jump in COVID-19 cas­es in al­most six months yes­ter­day. Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health’s dai­ly up­date, 393 new cas­es were con­firmed from sam­ples col­lect­ed be­tween Oc­to­ber 30 and No­vem­ber 2. It’s the high­est jump since June 9 which saw 454 cas­es con­firmed.

The new cas­es bring the sev­en-day rolling av­er­age up to 278. It’s the high­est it’s been since June 19, which was 298. The min­istry al­so con­firmed nine ad­di­tion­al fa­tal­i­ties over the past 24 hours bring­ing the coun­try’s toll up to 1,729. They were five el­der­ly fe­males, two mid­dle-aged males and two mid­dle-aged fe­males.

Re­porter: Rishard Khan