09 Mar 2021 / 19:16 H. Pix for representational purpose only.
KUALA LUMPUR: The number of new Covid-19 cases in the country continue to show a downward trend, with 1,280 cases reported today.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Malaysia’s infection tally now stood at 316,269, with 18,704 of them active cases.
“Of the new cases, 1,278 were local transmissions, involving 919 Malaysians and 359 foreigners, while two more were import cases, involving a Malaysian and a foreigner respectively,” Dr Noor Hisham said in a media statement here today.
There were also 2,345 recovery cases reported overnight, with the recovery tally now at 296,379 or 93 percent, he added.