Sunday, 02 May 2021 04:32 PM MYT
BY SYED JAYMAL ZAHIID
Dr Noor Hisham said the ministry reported 3,418 new Covid-19 cases as of noon today, raising the total cumulative cases to 415,012. Picture by Choo Choy May
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 Daily Covid-19 numbers rose above the 3,000-case mark again today, with Selangor accounting for over one in three new infections, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah announced today.
The Ministry of Health reported 3,418 new infection cases as of noon, raising the total cumulative cases to 415,012.
Selangor, the state often contributing the highest number of cases since the rate of daily infection spiked to over 2,000, reported 1,200 cases today.
PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry has sounded the alarm as government hospitals around the Klang Valley are running out of beds at intensive care units (ICUs) to treat critical Covid-19 cases.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that one of the hospitals - Hospital Sungai Buloh - has seen more than 20 case referrals to the ICU daily in the past one week, adding that the hospital is almost running out of beds.
“63 ICU patients, with more than 25 critically ill patients to be reviewed in the general ward and emergency department and more than 20 case referrals to ICU daily in the past one week in Sungai Buloh Hospital, ” he said in a Facebook post on Sunday (May 2).
Sunday, 02 May 2021 05:10 PM MYT
BY KENNETH TEE
Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob spoke at a press conference on the development of the RMCP at Wisma Pertahanan, Ministry of Defence, November 9, 2020. Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has dismissed a news report claiming the government would reintroduce the movement control order (MCO) next week in several states with rising Covid-19 cases.
He said the speculation was false as the National Security Council has yet to meet since Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s remark on the government’s need to review the current MCO.
KUALA LUMPUR: Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pix) has described the spread of Covid-19 in the country as becoming critical a.