PETALING JAYA: Fourteen members of the Nicky Gang will spend the next two weeks in jail until their case is transferred to the High Court.Their bail was denied by the Sessions Court here.
The suspects were among 16 members of the gang who were earlier charged in the same court for involvement in organised crime, which carries a prison sentence of not less than five years and not more than 20 years in jail, if found guilty.
The gang’s alleged leader, Datuk Seri Nicky Liow Soon Hee, and his personal assistant Niu Zhe were charged in absentia as both are still at large.
The health ministry has reported 1,470 Covid-19 cases and three deaths in the past 24 hours.
Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said there were 1,830 recoveries, bringing the total number of those discharged to 304,492.
In a statement, Noor Hisham said the total number of infections now stands at 322,409.
There are 16,711 active cases, with 162 patients being treated in intensive care and 70 requiring respiratory assistance.
Meanwhile, the three deaths take the number of fatalities to 1,206.
The new cases today involved 1,458 local infections and 12 imported cases
Covid-19 (March 13): 1,470 new cases, 3 deaths
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Modified13 Mar 2021, 10:21 am
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Most new cases still originated from the
Klang Valley (48.2 percent), followed by
Sarawak (15.1 percent),
Johor (6.8 percent).
Perlis continued to record more than 20 cases for a second straight day due to new infections from the DTI Persiaran Wawasan cluster, which is linked to an immigration detention depot.
While active cases declined, there were 15 additional patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and three more intubated today.
Active cases: 16,711
PETALING JAYA: The country recorded 1,529 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, the lowest since the beginning of the year, says the Health Ministry.
Its director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the total number of active cases was also below 20,000 for the first time in 2021, at 19,778 cases.
Of the new cases, 1,520 were locally transmitted while nine were imported cases. Eight fatalities were recorded, bringing the death toll to 1,177 cases.
Selangor continued to record the most number of cases in the country at 726, he added.
“Of this total, 645 cases were from clusters and from the active Covid-19 close contact screening that is being conducted in the field.
Covid-19 (March 7): 1,683 new cases, Perlis sees highest spike yet
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Of the new cases, 1,136 were Malaysians while another 547 were non-citizens.
The country managed to keep the number of new daily Covid-19 infections to under 2,000 in five out of the last seven days.
However, Perlis saw the highest number of new infections today since the start of the third wave of the pandemic at 24 cases, the majority of which came from a detention centre.
While the new infections are relatively low compared to other states, Perlis is also the smallest and least populous state. It had only seen a single-digit or no new cases in the previous 44 days.