KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Malaysia recorded a big jump in new COVID-19 positive cases to 62 cases today compared with only six cases reported yesterday.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the 62 new cases, 56 were local transmissions involving 30 Malaysians and 26 foreigners while only six were imported cases.
Elaborating on the 56 cases of local transmission, he said that 50 cases were from Benteng LD cluster with one case of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) detected at Lahad Datu Hospital, Sabah.
Apart from that, four local transmissions detected in Kedah involving the Sungai cluster (two cases), the Telaga cluster screening (one case); and symptomatic screening at a dental clinic in Alor Setar (one case) as well as another case reported in Penang involving a close contact screening case related to case 9397.
The latest developments bring the total number of positive COVID-19 cases in Malaysia to 9,459 cases with active cases with infectivity standing at 207, he said in a statement on the development of COVID-19, here today.
