Highest Covid-19 recoveries but 3 more deaths with 589 New Cases

 

PETALING JAYA: The health ministry reported 409 Covid-19 recoveries, the highest to date.

At a press conference, health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah also said there were 589 cases and three deaths in the past 24 hours.

Today’s recoveries bring the total number of those discharged to 12,014, or 66.3% of total cases.

Noor Hisham said the 589 new cases bring the total number of cases in the country to 18,129.

The three deaths bring the toll to 170.

A total of 5,945 people are still being treated, of which 103 are receiving intensive care, with 31 requiring respiratory assistance.

All three deaths reported today were in Sabah involving people aged between 54 and 100, but only two of them had existing medical conditions.

One of them was a Malaysian who died in Hospital Queen Elizabeth. The other two were foreigners who died in Hospital Tawau and Hospital Duchess of Kent, respectively.

Of today’s new cases, 586 were local transmissions involving 452 Malaysians and 133 foreigners.

The remaining three were imported cases from Indonesia and Ukraine.

The majority of today’s new cases were from Sabah with 340 cases, followed by 150 in Selangor, 52 in Perak and 31 in Kedah.

Most of the cases detected in Sabah were from close contact screenings and 13 of them were from the newly-identified Olive cluster.

Meanwhile, the majority of Selangor’s new cases came from existing clusters in the state. Other cases were also detected through close contact screenings.

In Perak and Kedah, almost all of the cases were detected from active clusters in both states. Two of the cases in Perak came from the new Bah Pengkalan cluster.

Penang and Negeri Sembilan reported 16 and 11 cases respectively, while Kuala Lumpur, Labuan, Sarawak, Melaka, Kelantan and Putrajaya all reported fewer than 10 cases each. - FMT