Saturday, 13 Mar 2021 06:48 PM MYT
By Soo Wern Jun
File photo of a healthcare worker administering a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a frontliner at the UiTM Private Specialist Centre in Sungai Buloh March 2, 2021. ― Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 Malaysia today recorded 1,470 new Covid-19 cases, this is the eighth day where daily infections have stayed below the 2,000 mark.
“There are 1,830 recoveries, bringing the total number of cumulative recoveries to 304,492 recovered cases,” said the Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a statement today.
Saturday, 13 Mar 2021 03:51 PM MYT
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah says the number of Malaysians with kidney failure is expected to reach 106,000 by 2040. Picture by Miera Zulyana
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 ― The number of Malaysians with kidney failure is expected to reach 106,000 by 2040, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
Dr Noor Hisham said what’s alarming is that 30 per cent of them are young people under the age of 45 and this could have a negative impact on the country s socio-economy.
He said to date there are about 40,000 kidney failure patients undergoing dialysis treatment nationwide.
Malaysia logged 1,575 new Covid-19 cases today, marking the seventh straight day that daily infections have stayed below the 2,000 mark. But three more deaths from the illness were recorded, raising the coronavirus death toll here to 1,203.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 There were 1,575 new Covid-19 infections and three deaths from the coronavirus in Malaysia over the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said. In a statement, its director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said out of the total daily infections, seven were.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia today recorded 1,575 new cases of Covid-19, with three deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said there were also 2,042 recoveries in the same period, bringing the cumulative number of those recovered to 302,662, while the total number of deaths due to the epidemic stood at 1,203.
“Of the new cases today, 1,568 involved local transmissions, comprising 1,269 Malaysians and 299 non-citizens, while the other seven are import cases,“ he said via his official Twitter account today.
Dr Noor Hisham said Selangor continued to record the highest number of daily new cases with 751, followed by Sarawak (173) and Johor (135).