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PUTRAJAYA (THE STAR / ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysia announced on Tuesday (September 8) 100 new cases of Covid-19, the highest in the three months since the government relaxed movement restrictions on June 10.
Sixty-two of the new cases came from the Benteng Lahad Datu (LD) group in Sabah that originated in the detention centers.
Malaysia relaxed its motion control order (MCO) after 48 days.
He started the recovery MCO on June 10 by allowing most businesses to reopen and social activities to restart, provided they follow health care protocols like social distancing and measuring temperatures when entering a public building.
The 100 cases were by far the largest single-day increase during OLS recovery, topping Monday’s 62 new cases in one day.
The LD group in Sabah was recently detected, and all those affected were prisoners, said the director general of the Ministry of Health, Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The group originated from two undocumented Filipino immigrants who were being detained at the Lahad Datu police headquarters.
Dr Noor Hisham said that of the 62 new cases in the LD group, 32 were foreign while 30 were Malaysian.
In total, the cluster has 128 confirmed cases so far.
No deaths were reported, which means the death toll from Covid-19 in Malaysia remains at 128, or a death rate of 1.34 percent.
The first cases were found after a Covid-19 review conducted on detainees at the Lahad Datu police headquarters.
The cases spread to Tawau Prison, some 150 kilometers away, after some detainees with a travel history to Lahad Datu infected other inmates there.
Malaysia now has a cumulative total of 9,559 cases since the outbreak began in January, with 12 patients discharged on Tuesday.
The total number of active cases in the country is now 295 cases.
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