The number of daily recoveries exceeded the number of daily infections for the ninth time, with 201 cured cases. This brings the total recoveries in Malaysia to 2,967 or 56.5% of the country’s total.
Daily recoveries exceed new infections for eighth time as 119 cured compared with 110 new cases
Lembah Pantai in Kuala Lumpur remains the district with the highest number of confirmed infections at 577 cases or 11.4%, while Hulu Langat has 440 cases.
This brings the total of infections related to the Bali cluster to 24 cases, while Kampung Baru has 27 infections.
This is the first time Malaysia has reported a daily figure that is less than 100 infections since March 15, with 41 cases. The next day, daily infections quadrupled to 190 cases.
Lembah Pantai located in Kuala Lumpur has topped 500 cases, which is higher than other countries in Asia such as Taiwan with 393 cases, Vietnam (267) and Brunei (136).
Five more deaths were reported, raising the death toll to 82, representing a 1.64% fatality rate.
Seremban has recorded 136 confirmed infections since the start of the second phase of the Movement Control Order on April 1 (124 cases), making it the red zone with the fourth-highest number of confirmed infections in Malaysia.
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah revealed that the index case, patient No. 4,688, in the cluster has a traveling history to Bali, Indonesia. The person had close contact with his brother, patient No. 1,575 patient, who has died of Covid-19.
Patient No. 1,575 had infected seven persons in the second generation, and 11 individuals in the third generation.
One more death was reported today, raising the death toll to 77.
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