KUALA LUMPUR (June 20): The number of active Covid-19 cases in Malaysia has dropped further to 289 as of noon today, the health ministry said.
This is the lowest since March 14 when the number of active cases stood at 203.
This came as the number of recoveries continued to surpass new infections, with 76 patients discharged in the 24 hours up to noon today, as against 21 new cases.
The latest cases raised to 8,556 the total number of Covid-19 infections reported in the country so far, health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a statement.
No new deaths were reported, and the death toll from the virus remained at 121, representing 1.41% of total cases.
Meanwhile, the total number of recoveries to date is 8,146, or 95.2% of total cases.
Dr Noor Hisham said three patients were being treated in the intensive care unit.
He said of the 21 new cases, 19 were local transmissions (consisting of 12 Malaysians and seven foreign workers) while two were imported cases.
Seven of the locally transmitted cases involved foreign workers in Kuala Lumpur, with close contact with patient no. 8498 and patient no. 8523, he said in a statement.
In Selangor, 10 new cases were reported, including seven that were detected through the screening of several tahfiz schools.
One case was from a new cluster in Sepang. Another was found in an old folks’ home cluster in Kuala Selangor (a relative of patient no. 8510). The remaining case involved a frontliner in an administrative movement control order area in Taman Langat Murni and Taman Langat Utama.
Elsewhere, Dr Noor Hisham said there was one new case in Negeri Sembilan, detected in a screening carried out in Seremban before a patient was transferred to prison.
There was also one new case in Sabah, detected in a screening done among the community by the local health office. The patient did not display any symptom and was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth I Hospital in Kota Kinabalu.