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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia continued its four-digit trend in daily Covid-19 cases after 1,870 new infections were reported today, and Johor recorded the highest number of cases in the country at 607.
Health Director General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said this brought the total number of infections in the country to 110,485 so far, of which 22,562 are active cases.
“The increase in Johor is due to the group related to the Tembok Choh prison that reported 374 cases, followed by Selangor with 472 cases and Sabah with 280 cases,” it said in a statement today.
Dr. Noor Hisham said that the pandemic also claimed six more lives overnight, and that the death toll in the country now stands at 463 cases.
However, 745 recovered cases were reported, bringing the total number of recoveries to 87,460 cases, he said.
Dr. Noor Hisham said that to date, 131 cases are being treated in the intensive care unit, 62 of them intubated.
He said that Kuala Lumpur reported 219 cases today, Penang (69), Kelantan (56), Perak (56), Perak and Pahang 48 respectively, Negeri Sembilan (34), Kedah (23), Melaka (8), Labuan, Terengganu two cases each and Putrajaya one case.
He said the deaths involved four men and two women, all between 45 and 69 years old, adding that four of the deaths occurred in Sabah and one in Johor and one in Selangor. -Called
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