Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. -filepic
PUTRAJAYA: Sarawak topped the list of states in the country’s daily Covid-19 figures, after recording 385 new cases on Tuesday (April 6).
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Sarawak’s cases were 29.6% of the country’s total number of new infections.
“Out of Sarawak’s new cases, 168 of them were detected from infection clusters in the state.
“About 184 new cases were those traced from close contacts to positive cases.
“The rest are sporadic cases (29) and import cases (four), ” said Dr Noor Hisham in his daily Covid-19 statement.
Selangor was the second highest with 242 new cases, followed by Kelantan with 126 cases.
Tuesday, 06 Apr 2021 05:46 PM MYT
BY SHAHRIN AIZAT NOORSHAHRIZAM
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 6 There were 1,300 new Covid-19 infections and three deaths from the coronavirus in Malaysia over the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said today.
In a statement, its director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said out of the total daily infections, 24 were imported, bringing the cumulative positive cases to 353,329 since the pandemic arrived in Malaysia.
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LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded 1,070 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, down from yesterday’s 1,349, while seven more fatalities due to the disease were reported in the same period.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the latest development brought the cumulative number of positive cases in the country to 352,029, with 14,278 cases still active.
He said nine of the cases today were imported, with the rest involving local transmissions.
“The import cases involve five non-citizens and four citizens, while local cases involve 904 citizens and 157 non-citizens.
“There were also 1,294 recoveries recorded today, bringing the total number of patients cured so far to 336,456 cases,“ he said in a statement today.
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He said this is due to distance from health facilities and they are unable to register via the MySejahtera app.
He said Health Department staff will go into such areas together with other authorities like police and Rela to help register the rural folk and carry out the vaccination immediately.
He said the move will help reach out to the people involved. We can go into the interiors and rural areas, we can register and vaccinate everybody there, he told reporters after visiting the Tuaran Hospital about 40km from here Sunday (April 4). Preferably when we do the vaccinations, it would be single dose rather than double doses. It would mean that they do not have to return for the second dose.