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PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia recorded 847 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday (Oct 22) and Sabah continued to record the highest number of cases with 578.
Health Director General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said the country also reported five new deaths from Covid-19, bringing the death toll to 204.
Malaysia also discharged 486 patients, meaning the total number of recoveries is 15,417.
Sabah has the highest recoveries with 250 cases followed by Selangor with 109.
Active cases in the country have risen to 8,183.
In total, Malaysia has recorded 23,804 Covid-19 cases since January.
Currently, 90 people are being treated in intensive care units, and 29 of them require respiratory assistance.
Dr. Noor Hisham said that most of the new cases continued to come from Sabah with 578 new infections (68.2%) reported in the state alone.
“This is due to the hard work that is being done in Sabah, where there are more health workers who have mobilized from Peninsular Malaysia and also in Sabah to carry out Covid-19 detection in the field.
“At the same time, there are more laboratory results coming back from the RT-PCR tests, as well as the RTK antigen tests (rapid test kits) from our screening exercise,” he said at a press conference.
Selangor is the second highest state with 132 new cases, followed by Negri Sembilan with 38 cases and Labuan (29).
Other states that registered new cases are Kuala Lumpur (23 cases), Perak (14), Penang (10), Putrajaya (four), Kedah (three), Melaka (three), Kelantan (three), Pahang (two), Terengganu (one), Johor (one) and Sarawak (one).
There are five new import cases, involving four people arriving from India and one from the United States.
Of the five new death cases, Dr. Noor Hisham said that four are in Sabah while one is in Kedah.
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