21 Dec 2020 / 21:13 H.
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia reported 2,018 new Covid-19 cases today, the third highest daily tally since the pandemic hit the country.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said there was also one fatality reported overnight, adding that the latest figures took the Covid-19 infection tally to 16,496 cases with 438 deaths.
“Of the new cases, seven are imported who got infected abroad, while 2,011 cases were local transmissions,” he told a media conference on Covid-19 developments here today.
He said Selangor continued to report the highest number of infections with 1,204 cases, in which 1,115 of them are from clusters and close contact screenings, followed by Johor (278 cases) and Sabah (247 cases).
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