11 May 2021 / 19:28 H.
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia continued to record a high number of Covid-19 cases over the 24 hours up to noon today, with 3,973 cases that have taken the cumulative tally to 448,457.
Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that during the same period, there were 2,848 cases of recovery from the disease, taking the cumulative tally to 408,236 and leaving 38,499 active cases.
He also said that 453 cases were in intensive care, with 244 of them intubated and that 22 more people have died, thus taking the death toll to 1,722.
The 22 people who died were Malaysians aged between 31 and 85, and a majority of them had chronic ailments, he told a press conference held jointly with Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, at the Prime Minister’s Office, here.
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BY IDA LIM
Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah showing a placard ‘I have TAKEN 2 DOS’ after receiving the second injection of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from Chief Nurse Lina Ibrahim at the Putrajaya Precinct 18 Health Clinic, Putrajaya, March 17, 2021. Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 Four more cases of the South African variant of the Covid-19 virus that were locally transmitted have been identified in Malaysia, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today.
This is on top of 17 Covid-19 cases of the South African variant B.1.351 reported to the Health Ministry from January to March 2021, which brings the total of such cases in the country now to 21.