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PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia registered 959 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday (December 9), bringing the country’s total confirmed cases to 76,265.
At a press conference on Wednesday (December 9), Health Director General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah also said that five more people died from the coronavirus, bringing Malaysia’s death toll to 393.
The country also discharged 1,068 Covid-19 patients, meaning 65,124 people have recovered.
The number of people with active Covid-19 infections in Malaysia is now 10,748.
He added that six of Wednesday’s new cases are imported infections, while the rest are local transmissions.
Selangor posted the largest increase of the day of all states with 277 confirmed cases, followed by Sabah with 203 and Kuala Lumpur with 129.
Other states with new cases of Covid-19 are Pahang (119 cases), Johor (100), Negri Sembilan (33), Perak (33), Penang (29), Kelantan (17), Kedah (16), Melaka (two ) and Labuan (one).
Sarawak, Terengganu, Putrajaya and Perlis registered zero new cases.
Dr. Noor Hisham said that there are 127 patients currently in intensive care units (ICU), and 61 require ventilation.
In the new deaths, all involve Malaysian citizens between the ages of 60 and 82.
Two are in Sabah (Sandakan and Kota Kinabalu), two are in Johor, and one is in Kuala Lumpur.
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