05 Apr 2021 / 20:03 H.
KUALA
LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded 1,070 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, down from yesterday’s 1,349, while seven more fatalities due to the disease were reported in the same period.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the latest development brought the cumulative number of positive cases in the country to 352,029, with 14,278 cases still active.
He said nine of the cases today were imported, with the rest involving local transmissions.
“The import cases involve five non-citizens and four citizens, while local cases involve 904 citizens and 157 non-citizens.
“There were also 1,294 recoveries recorded today, bringing the total number of patients cured so far to 336,456 cases,“ he said in a statement today.