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KUALA LUMPURMalaysia will end 2020 on a discordant note after setting a new record for Covid-19 infections since the pandemic began in January with 2,525 new cases reported today.
Added to the consternation was the announcement of eight more deaths, bringing the death toll from Covid-19 in the country to 471 people.
With this latest development, Chief Health Officer Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said the count of Covid-19 infections in Malaysia was now 113,010 cases, 23,598 of which are active.
“Selangor reported the highest with 1,205 cases, of which 995 were from conglomerates and the close contact detection of Covid-19 was actively carried out in the field.
“This is followed by Sabah with 299 cases and Melaka with 239,” he said in a statement here today.
Dr Noor Hisham, however, said a total of 1,481 recovered cases were recorded today, bringing the total number of recoveries so far to 88,941 cases.
To date, there are 131 cases being treated in the intensive care unit, 60 of them intubated, said Dr. Noor Hisham.
He said that Kuala Lumpur recorded 222 cases, Johor (194), Penang (92), Negeri Sembilan (78) Labuan (63) Kelantan (37), Perak (33), Kedah (24), Terengganu (17), Pahang (15 ), Putrajaya (5) and Sarawak with two cases.
The killings involved five men and three women, all Malays, between the ages of 39 and 70, in Johor, Selangor, Kelantan, Negeri Sembilan and Kedah. – Called
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