Covid-19 (March 7): 1,683 new cases, Perlis sees highest spike yet
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Modified7 Mar 2021, 10:37 am
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Of the new cases, 1,136 were Malaysians while another 547 were non-citizens.
The country managed to keep the number of new daily Covid-19 infections to under 2,000 in five out of the last seven days.
However, Perlis saw the highest number of new infections today since the start of the third wave of the pandemic at 24 cases, the majority of which came from a detention centre.
While the new infections are relatively low compared to other states, Perlis is also the smallest and least populous state. It had only seen a single-digit or no new cases in the previous 44 days.
KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 28): Malaysia today reported 4,094 new Covid-19 infections that raised the country s coronavirus cases to-date to 198,208, with 10 more deaths. This means a total of 717 people or 0.36% of those infected here have succumbed to the disease so far.
Of the new cases, 4,086 were domestic transmissions while eight were imported infections involving two Malaysians and six foreigners, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health.
Also reported today were 3,281 new recoveries, which raised total recoveries in the country to 154,299 or 77.8% of overall cases.
As new infections outpaced new recoveries, active cases that carry transmission risks climbed to 43,192 from 42,389 yesterday.
As for the new fatalities, three each were reported in Selangor and Sabah, two in Kuala Lumpur, and one each from Kedah and Sarawak. Nine of them were locals while one was a foreigner.