KUALA LUMPUR (April 18): Malaysia reported today 2,195 newly-confirmed Covid-19 infected individuals, a drop from yesterday’s 2,331 cases, as the number of fresh infections in pandemic hotspots Sarawak and Selangor fell. The country reported today eight Covid-19-related deaths.
Health director general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said via Twitter today that the 2,195 new Covid-19 cases brought the cumulative number of pandemic-infected persons in the country to 375,054 so far.
Dr Noor Hisham said Sarawak reported the highest number of daily new Covid-19 cases at 508, followed by Selangor and Johor at 431 and 387 respectively.
Elsewhere, he said Putrajaya and Perlis saw three fresh Covid-19 cases each, while Labuan registered six newly-confirmed infected persons.
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18 Apr 2021 / 19:21 H.
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LUMPUR: Malaysia today reported 2,195 Covid-19 new cases and eight fatalities, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.
The latest figures take the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases in the country to 375,054 with the death toll now at 1,378. Malaysia recorded 2,195 new cases yesterday.
Dr Noor Hisham, in a Twitter post, said Sarawak was back to being the state with the highest number of new cases, reporting 508 infections today, followed by Selangor (431), Johor (387) and Kelantan with 332 cases.
Kuala Lumpur, meanwhile, reported 176 new cases, followed by Sabah (112), Penang (84), Negeri Sembilan (42), Perak (35), Kedah (30), Terengganu (16), Melaka and Pahang 15 cases each, Labuan (6), Putrajaya (3) and Perlis (3).
This makes it the second day in a row that new Covid-19 cases numbered over 2,000.
Before this, the last time Malaysia’s daily cases went above 2,000 was on March 5 when there were 2,154 cases that day.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Sarawak saw 960 cases, which is 37.6% of Malaysia’s total yesterday.
“From Sarawak’s total, 892 cases or 92.9% were those uncovered from clusters and contact tracing activities, ” he said in the ministry’s daily Covid-19 updates.
Contributing to Sarawak’s rise is the Jalan Puncak Borneo cluster, linked to a police training centre (Pulapol) in Kuching, which saw a spike of 315 new cases yesterday.
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