26 Feb 2021 / 19:56 H.
PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has reported 2,253 new Covid-19 cases today, which brings the total number of cases recorded in the country to 295,951 to date with 27,994 being active cases.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a statement today that out of the total, seven were imported transmissions involving three Malaysians and four foreigners.
Selangor had the most cases today with 633, followed by Perak with 545 cases.
Johor reported 276 cases, Sarawak (250), Sabah (129), Kuala Lumpur (122), Penang (93), Kelantan (73), Negri Sembilan (68), Kedah (25), Pahang (21), Malacca (13), Perlis (four) and Terengganu with one case.
Putrajaya and Labuan were the only states that did not report any new Covid-19 cases today.
26 Feb 2021 / 20:22 H. Pix for illustration purposes.
KUALA
LUMPUR: The Congress of Union of Employees in the Public and Civil Services Malaysia (CUEPACS) has urged 1.6 million civil servants in this country to give their full support and cooperation in making the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme a success.
Its president Adnan Mat said as the front machinery of the country’s administration, civil servants should set an example for the society so that they would be confident and get accurate information on the Covid-19 vaccine.
He added that healthy civil servants would be the driving force for the government’s machinery to implement the country’s economic recovery programmes.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (
pic) said since the pandemic began, the ministry had identified a total of 1,111 clusters, of which 612 had ended.
Among the 18 inactive clusters is the Tapak Bina Bali Residence cluster in Melaka, which had 223 confirmed cases.
The cluster was related to workers of a construction site in Melaka, of whom 218 were non-Malaysians.
No deaths were reported from the cluster.
The ministry also uncovered eight new clusters, which means there are now 499 active ones in the country.
Five are workplace infections, two are community outbreaks and one involves an old folks home, the Lorong Murni cluster, which was detected in Seberang Perai Utara, Penang.
25 Feb 2021 / 21:02 H.
KUALA
LUMPUR: Since the enforcement of the Emergency Ordinance on Jan 11, the number of daily new Covid-19 infections in the country dipped below 2,000 for the first time today, with 1,924 cases reported.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the new cases, 1,918 were local transmissions while six more were imported who got infected abroad, taking Malaysia’s Covid-19 case tally to 293,698 infections.
“Since the enforcement of the Emergency Ordinance on Jan 11, 2021, Malaysia has seen a consistent decline trend in daily new cases and today, for the first time, the country is once again reporting less than 2,000 daily cases.