Covid-19 (March 16): 1,063 new cases, 5 deaths
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Modified16 Mar 2021, 11:01 am
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COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today reported 1,063 new Covid-19 cases, which is the lowest figure for daily new infections since Dec 9 last year.
Malaysians made up the majority (76.9 percent) of new cases as opposed to foreigners, who were usually infected while working in construction sites or factories.
Active cases: 15,204
Deaths
There were five new Covid-19 deaths reported today. Three were reported in Sarawak while Selangor and Kuala Lumpur reported one death each.
Sarawak has reported 94 Covid-19 related deaths and ranks fifth after Johor (103), Kuala Lumpur (112), Selangor (312) and Sabah (382).
The national Covid-19 death toll stood at 1,218.
PETALING JAYA: Selangor recorded 464 new Covid-19 cases, marking only the second time the figure has dipped below 500 this year.The only other time it recorded fewer than 500 cases was on March 1 with 453 cases.
On the latest cases in the state, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 368 were from clusters and active close contact screening.
The country recorded a total of 1,280 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, which was the fourth straight day of daily cases dropping below 2,000.
Of the new cases, 1,278 cases were locally transmitted while the remaining two were imported cases.
Dr Noor Hisham said five cases were from prison clusters, namely the Tembok Pengkalan Chepa cluster (two cases), the Jalan Harapan Prison cluster (two cases) and the Jalan Awang cluster (one case).
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KUALA LUMPUR: The number of new Covid-19 cases in the country continue to show a downward trend, with 1,280 cases reported today.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Malaysia’s infection tally now stood at 316,269, with 18,704 of them active cases.
“Of the new cases, 1,278 were local transmissions, involving 919 Malaysians and 359 foreigners, while two more were import cases, involving a Malaysian and a foreigner respectively,” Dr Noor Hisham said in a media statement here today.
There were also 2,345 recovery cases reported overnight, with the recovery tally now at 296,379 or 93 percent, he added.