PUTRAJAYA: The number of new Covid-19 cases in the country on Sunday remained at double digits at 19 with no death reported, said Health director-general of Health Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said the death tolls from the virus stood at 117 or 1.4 per cent of the total number of cases.
Of the 19 new cases, six were imported cases and another 13 were local transmissions.
“For local transmissions, two cases involve foreigners while 11 cases are Malaysians,” he said at a Covid-19 daily media conference here today.
He said this brought the cumulative figure for Covid -19 cases to 8,322 while the number of active Covid -19 cases with infectivity stood at 1,531 cases and they were isolated and treated.
Dr Noor Hisham said a total of 39 cases have recovered and allowed to be discharged today, bringing the cumulative figure for recoveries to 6,674 cases or 80.2 per cent of the total number of cases.
“Thus far, five positive cases of Covid -19 are still being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) but none is on ventilator support,” he said.
He said, out of 11 cases involving Malaysians, six cases were detected in Selangor, two in the Federal Territory, two in Sabah and one in Negeri Sembilan.
He said in Selangor, two cases were detected during the screening at a rehabilitation centre in Dengkil; two cases from madrasah tahfiz screening, while one case is in police custody at the Sabak Bernam district police headquarters and one case from screening conducted at a workplace in Klang.
“In Kuala Lumpur, it involved the Cheras Apartment Cluster and the new Gombak Cluster with one case each and they are close contacts of cases 7064 and case 7246 respectively. – Bernama
