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PUTRAJAYA: There was a record 1,345 Covid-19 patients discharged in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of discharged patients to 29,579.
Chief Health Officer Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said there were 972 new cases, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 41,181.
There were 967 local infections and five imported cases.
There are currently 11,308 patients in treatment. Eighty-six are in intensive care and 31 require respiratory assistance.
At a press conference, Noor Hisham also said there were eight new deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 294.
Most of the new cases came from Sabah (370), Negeri Sembilan (260), Selangor (137), Labuan (63), Perak (51), Penang (34), Kuala Lumpur (20), Kedah (8) , Johor (8), Melaka (5), Putrajaya (5), Sarawak (4) and Kelantan (2).
The new cases involved those in groups, close contacts of positive cases and other evaluations.
The latest deaths affected seven patients in Sabah and one in Labuan, aged between 1 and 72 years. Six of the eight, including the one-year-old, suffered from other illnesses.
The one-year-old boy who died in Sandakan, Sabah, had a hole in his heart and suffered from Down syndrome and hypothyroidism.
There were six Malays, five men and one woman, and two foreign women.
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