25 Feb 2021 / 21:02 H.
KUALA
LUMPUR: Since the enforcement of the Emergency Ordinance on Jan 11, the number of daily new Covid-19 infections in the country dipped below 2,000 for the first time today, with 1,924 cases reported.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the new cases, 1,918 were local transmissions while six more were imported who got infected abroad, taking Malaysia’s Covid-19 case tally to 293,698 infections.
“Since the enforcement of the Emergency Ordinance on Jan 11, 2021, Malaysia has seen a consistent decline trend in daily new cases and today, for the first time, the country is once again reporting less than 2,000 daily cases.