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PUTRAJAYA: The Ministry of Health has reported 1,755 cases of Covid-19 and two deaths in the last 24 hours.
This is the fourth day in a row that Malaysian cases have hit four digits.
Chief Health Officer Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said there were 726 recoveries, bringing the total number of discharged to 26,380.
In a statement, Noor Hisham said the 1,755 cases bring the total number of infections in the country to 38,189.
Of the number, 1,752 were local infections, while the remaining three cases were imported cases. The three imported cases involved two Malaysians and one foreigner who had arrived from Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Myanmar.
Meanwhile, the two deaths bring the balance to 279.
A total of 11,530 people are currently receiving treatment, 83 in intensive care, of which 32 require respiratory assistance.
The two deaths involved a 67-year-old woman from Sabah and a 54-year-old man from Kedah. Both had a history of noncommunicable diseases.
Most of today’s local cases were from Sabah with 1,199 infections, 741 of which were from prison and groups of temporary detention centers.
It was followed by Penang with 192 cases, Selangor (164), Labuan (59), Negeri Sembilan (45), Kedah (19), Perak (18), Kuala Lumpur (17), Sarawak (17), Putrajaya (9), Terengganu (8), Johor (3) and two in Melaka.
Most of these cases were detected in the existing groups.
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