COVID-19: 6,976 new cases, Malaysia's highest positive case record

By Nurzulfadhli

Photo taken from Official MOH website

Kuala Lumpur - On Sunday the highest since the outbreak in the country in February of last year was 6,976 new COVID-19 cases reported.

The increase leads to 512,091 cumulative COVID-19 infections in the world.

Selangor also has the largest number of new infections with 2,235 cases, or 32 percent of the total cases, according to Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, the Director General of Health.

"A total of 49 persons (due to COVID-19) were confirmed dead, 48 of whom were local people. In Malaysia, there are a total of 2,248 deaths, or 0.44%, so far "He said here, on Sunday, in a tweet.

Dr. Noor Hisham also commented that of 49 cases of death 14 in Selangor were confirmed, followed by Johor (8) apart from six in Penang and Melaka each.

Beside this, four cases were registered by Kedah, Sarawak (three), two cases in Sabah, Kuala Lumpur in Negeri, and one case in Kelantan and Perlis, respectively.

"They were 25 to 93 years old who died," he said. He told himself.

Meanwhile, there have been 57,020 active cases of infection with COVID-19.

He also mentioned that in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) there were 681 patients admitted and 361 people needed respiratory help.

He has also announced that 3,587 recovery cases have been reported today at midnight, with a total of 452,821 or 88,4 percent recuperation cases completed.