Published on: Monday, February 15, 2021
By: Bernama
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Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia continued to record a drop in new COVID-19 daily cases in the past 24 hours, with 2,176 cases reported today, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
This is the third time that there have been fewer than 3,000 cases this month, with 2,464 cases reported on Sunday and 2,764 on Feb 9.
He said the latest development took the total number of infections in the country to 266,445 cases, with 47,135 of them being active cases.
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“Of the new infections, 2,175 cases were local transmissions involving 1,618 Malaysians and 557 foreigners while the sole imported case involved a Malaysian infected abroad,” he said in a statement on COVID-19 today.