Thursday, 17 Dec 2020 06:25 PM MYT
BY JERRY CHOONG
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the 89,133 total cases recorded, 14,671 cases are still being actively treated. Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 Malaysia has recorded 1,220 new Covid-19 infections today, with more than half of them occuring in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the 89,133 total cases recorded, 14,671 cases are still being actively treated.
“Of the 1,220 new infections today, six are import cases in which the infection occurred abroad while the remainder 1,214 cases occurred domestically,” he said in a statement.
Thursday, 17 Dec 2020
JOHOR BARU: Johor welcomes the decision by the Health Ministry to shorten the quarantine period for Covid-19 from 14 to 10 days.
State health and environment committee chairman R. Vidyananthan said the decision was in line with the current Covid-19 situation in Malaysia as well as the latest clinical report from all over the world.
“Countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium have also reduced the quarantine period to 10 days while France has set the mandatory quarantine period to seven days.
“The latest clinical scientific evidence shows that the risk of post-quarantine infections reduces in accordance with the length of the quarantine period, with the rate of infection highest in the first week after exposure, ” he said here.
6:10 PM MYT
PUTRAJAYA: There are more Covid-19 recoveries than new cases in Malaysia on Thursday (Dec 17), as 1,297 patients were discharged, while 1,220 fresh infections were confirmed.
In a statement, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the country now has 89,133 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic.
The total number of recoveries is now 74,030, or 83.1%.
Three more people died due to the virus, pushing Malaysia’s Covid-19 death toll to 432.
The number of people with active Covid-19 infections in Malaysia is now down slightly to 14,671.
Currently, 106 patients are in intensive care, with 53 requiring ventilator support.
Dr Noor Hisham said Selangor continued to record the highest increase of the day out of all states with 368 confirmed cases, or 30.2% of Thursday’s total.
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The new additions pushed Malaysia s cumulative confirmed coronavirus cases to 89,133.
Selangor was in fact the top contributor with 368 cases, followed by Kuala Lumpur with 297 and Sabah with 184, according to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a statement.
The bulk or 247 cases from Selangor were traceable to existing Covid-19 clusters and close contacts of confirmed Covid-19 carriers, said Dr Noor Hisham, adding that the remainder came from other Covid-19 screenings such as those done on individuals with symptoms, pre-surgery screenings, targeted community screenings, workplace screenings and pre-departure screenings.
Also, 135 cases from the daily increase came from prison clusters and temporary detention centres, he said. These comprise 98 cases from the Jalan Harapan prison cluster, 36 cases from the Tembok cluster in Kedah, and one case from Seberang Perai prison cluster in Penang.