Covid-19 cases in Malaysia cross 200k mark with 5,725 new cases reported thestar.com.my - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thestar.com.my Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
14 Jan 2021 / 20:30 H.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded the highest number of new daily Covid-19 cases today at 3,337 cases, bringing the total number of positive cases in the country to 147,855.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the total number of new cases, seven were imported while the remaining 3,330 cases were local transmissions.
The previous highest number of daily cases was 3,309, which was recorded on Tuesday.
“The number of active cases with Covid-19 infectivity is 33,989.
“Fifteen new Covid-19 deaths involving nine men, aged between 53 and 81, as well as six women including two non-citizens, aged between 27 and 91, were recorded in Sabah, Selangor, Putrajaya, Negeri Sembilan and Johor,” he said in a statement today
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Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah speaks during a press conference in Putrajaya on November 21, 2020. Picture by Miera Zulyana
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 Selangor still records the highest daily case of Covid-19 at 673 cases, which is 39.5 per cent of the total 1,704 new cases for the last 24 hours.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this brought the total positive Covid-19 cases in Malaysia to 119,077 cases while the number of active cases with Covid-19 infectivity was 21,365 cases.
“Of the total new cases, there are five imported cases while the domestic transmission of Covid-19 stands at 1,699 cases,” he said in a statement on the development of Covid-19 today.
Covid-19: 2,068 new cases today, three deaths thesundaily.my - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thesundaily.my Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Three new Covid-19 clusters detected today
January 1, 2021
Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah
KUALA LUMPUR – The Ministry of Health (MOH) has detected three more new COVID-19 clusters in Penang, Johor, Pahang and Selangor today, and two of them are workplace clusters.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the two new workplace clusters were the Rawa Akasia Cluster involving the districts of Timur Laut, Barat Daya, Seberang Perai Tengah and Seberang Perai Selatan in Penang as well as the Jalan Perindustrian Cluster in Kulai, Johor.
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“The index case for the Rawa Akasia Cluster, which is case number 100,149, was reported positive on Dec 24 through symptomatic individual screening with a total of 322 individuals screened, and 117 cases were COVID-19 positive.