News by Syafiqah Salim

The jump in new infections brought the country's total cases to 11,484.

The group said it launched RM541.4 million new projects in the first half of FY21 (1HFY21), focusing on the two-storey terraced homes segment in Sendayan Developments and Bandar Seri Impian in Negeri Sembilan.

The index case of the Orkim cluster is an Indonesian crew member of the ship, said MoH director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

This is the fourth time this month that the daily new cases hit triple digits. The highest daily figure reported this month was on Sept 11 — with 182 cases.

Today’s daily figure is the highest since 182 new Covid-19 cases were reported on Sept 11.

The 129th fatality refers to case No 10,145 — a Filipina aged 50 — who had coughs and breathing difficulties on Sept 14.

Meanwhile, Scientex said it remains focused on providing affordable homes as demand for such affordable housing remains strong, amid the low interest rate environment and supported by various government initiatives.

So far, 337 individuals have been found positive under this cluster, which involves two districts — Tawau and Lahad Datu, from a total of 2,837 individuals who have been screened; 1,584 are still awaiting their test results while 916 have been found negative.

Following this hike, active cases breached the 500-mark today, with 501 active cases. The last time Malaysia recorded more active cases was on June 17 with 521 cases.

Of the 45 new cases, 44 were local transmissions involving 11 Malaysians and 33 foreigners.