Highest single-day increase on record.
The number of positive Covid-19 cases reported today again reached three digits with 277 cases recorded, of which 271 involved non-Malaysians.
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that of the total, there were only four local transmissions among Malaysians and two imported cases involving Malaysians who were infected overseas.
“A total of 270 cases among non-Malaysians were from the Bukit Jalil Immigration Detention Depot and which were repeat samples of those detained and quarantined there.
“They were previously exposed to positive cases. Meanwhile, one case involving a foreigner is from a construction site in Pudu,” he said at the daily Covid-19 media briefing today.
“This brings the total Covid-19 cases to 8,247 with 1,573 patients still being treated at hospitals nationwide,” he added.
A total of 28 patients have fully recovered from the Covid-19 disease and were discharged from hospitals today.
The total number of those who have recovered stands at 6,559, or 79.5 percent of the total number of cases.
Six cases are being treated at the ICU, with two patients requiring respiratory assistance.
The country’s death toll from the infectious disease remains at 115 as no new death was recorded today.
The last time positive Covid-19 cases in Malaysia reached three digits was on May 26 with 187 cases.