Malaysia today recorded its highest number of Covid-19 recoveries since the implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO), with 333 patients being discharged from hospital.
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 307 of the recovered are foreigners and 26 are Malaysians.
With this, he said, the total cumulative number of recoveries in Malaysia stands at 7,733 or 90.9 percent of the total Covid-19 cases recorded in the country.
Meanwhile, he said 11 new cases were registered as of noon today, bringing the tally of infections in Malaysia to 8,505 – 651 of which are active cases.
Of today’s new cases, one is imported, and the rest are local transmissions involving six foreigners and four locals.
Six of the foreigners are in Kuala Lumpur and four in Negri Sembilan.
Two of the Kuala Lumpur cases are linked to a construction site cluster; while the four Negri Sembilan cases originate from the Pedas cluster and the cleaning company cluster.
Of the four cases involving Malaysians, three had close contact with a Covid-19 patient in Sarawak; and one was detected during pre-surgery screening at Putrajaya Hospital, who was later transferred to the Sungai Buloh Hospital.
Four of the Covid-19 patients have been placed in the intensive care unit but do not require ventilator support.
No new deaths from the coronavirus were reported today, leaving the cumulative number of casualties from the pandemic in the country at 121 cases, or 1.42 percent from all total cases.
The data was shared by Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah on Twitter.
There is no Health Ministry press conference today as its daily briefing on Covid-19 was scaled back to thrice-weekly – on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.