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KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 30): Malaysia today recorded 1,870 new Covid-19 cases with six more deaths, pushing the cumulative confirmed infections in the country to 110,485, and the coronavirus death toll here to 463.
Johor overtook Selangor as the biggest contributor of new infections today, with 607 cases, according to a statement from health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The spike in cases in the state came mostly from a newly identified prison cluster named Tembok Choh, which recorded 374 new cases. The cluster spans the Johor Bahru, Pontian, Kota Tinggi, Kulai, and Mersing districts.
These cases in Tembok Choh were among 402 cases reported from lockups, immigration detention depots and prisons in Selangor, Pahang, Johor and Perak, he said.
30 Dec 2020 / 20:23 H.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has detected eight more new Covid-19 clusters today, three in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur and one each in Selangor, Johor, Pahang, Kedah and Perak.
Health director-general, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham said the new development brings the total clusters in Malaysia to 506 and there are 223 active clusters being monitored.
In Kuala Lumpur, he said the first of the eight clusters was the Jalan Stesen construction site cluster involving transmission at the workplace in Lembah Pantai district.
“The first case of the cluster (case number 94863) was reported positive for Covid-19 on Dec 21 through screening of a symptomatic individual and up to today, 607 individuals have been screened with 54 found positive,” he said in a statement in Covid-19 development here today.