KUALA LUMPUR (March 6): Malaysia recorded 1,680 new cases of Covid-19, with seven deaths over the past 24 hours.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the drop in the number of new cases from 2,154 recorded yesterday brought the cumulative case count to 311,777, with the death toll stood at 1,166.
“A total of 2,548 recoveries were recorded today, higher than the number of daily new cases,” he tweeted.
Cumulative recovered cases now stood at 289,452, with active cases at 21,159.
Meanwhile, in a statement, Noor Hisham said the deaths reported today involved three patients in Selangor, three cases in Sarawak and one in Sabah, aged between 43 and 84.
06 Mar 2021 / 19:20 H.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded 1,680 new cases of Covid-19 with seven deaths over the past 24 hours.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the drop in the number of new cases from 2,154 recorded yesterday brought the cumulative case count to 311,777, with the death toll at 1,166.
“A total of 2,548 recoveries were recorded today, higher than the number of daily new cases,” he tweeted.
The cumulative recovered cases now stood at 289,452, while active cases at 21,159.
A total of 172 cases were being treated at the intensive care unit with 84 patients requiring ventilator support.
Meanwhile, in a statement, Dr Noor Hisham said the deaths reported today involved three patients in Selangor, three cases in Sarawak and one in Sabah, all aged between 43 and 84.
Saturday, 06 Mar 2021 06:23 PM MYT
BY RADZI RAZAK
A healthcare worker administers 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 6 Malaysia recorded more lives claimed by Covid-19 today, with seven patients succumbing to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
This brings the total number of deaths since the pandemic reached the country’s shores a year ago to 1,166.
The Ministry of Health’s (MOH) Covid-19 information centre, however, reported a continued downward trajectory of new cases, with 1,680 logged today.
Friday, 05 Mar 2021 07:00 AM MYT
BY YISWAREE PALANSAMY
Health minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba speaks to a reporter during an interview session with Malay Mail at the Ministry of Health in Putrajaya, March 4, 2021. Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said investigations on alleged queue-cutting for Covid-19 vaccines have yielded no evidence that any such incident occurred in the country.
Speaking to
Malay Mail, Dr Adham insisted that vaccines have so far only been administered to those who were due to get them.
05 Mar 2021 / 20:45 H. Pix for representational purpose only.
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 2,154 new daily Covid-19 cases were reported today, a slight increase from 2,063 cases reported yesterday.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said six more deaths were reported in the last 24 hours bringing the death toll from the outbreak in the country to 1,159.
The number of recoveries during the period was 3,275, higher than the new cases reported, he said in a statement on the development of Covid-19 here today.
He said with the latest development, the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia has now increased to 310,097, while the cumulative number of recoveries is at 286,904 and the number of active Covid-19 cases with infectivity is at 22,034.