KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (NNN-BERNAMA) — After recording over 800 positive COVID-19 cases daily in the past few days, the Ministry of Health today reported a slight drop in the number of cases in the country at 732, with six deaths.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that the new cases reported in the last 24 hours brought the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases in Malaysia to 22,957, while active cases with infectivity at 7,827.
“Of the total, 724 are local transmissions and there are eight imported cases involving six Malaysians and two foreigners.
“Sabah is still the state with the highest number of infection cases with 535 cases or 73.1 per cent,” he said at a press conference on the development of COVID-19, in Putrajaya.
Dr Noor Hisham said that in the last 24 hours, a total of 580 recovered cases were recorded, bringing the cumulative number of cases that have fully recovered from COVID-19 infection to 14,931, or 65 per cent of the total number of infections reported.
He said there were currently 102 cases being treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) with 31 in need of respiratory assistance.
On the breakdown of local transmissions according to states, apart from Sabah which recorded the highest increase in cases with 535, Selangor recorded 114 cases, Kuala Lumpur (20 cases), Penang (12 cases), Negeri Sembilan and Labuan reported nine cases each.
While Kedah and Perak recorded seven cases each, Putrajaya (six cases), Melaka (three cases) and Kelantan and Pahang have one case each.
On the six deaths reported today, Dr Noor Hisham said that five of them were recorded in Sabah involving four men (three Malaysians, one foreigner) and one Malaysian woman, aged between 27 and 55.
“Another death involving a Malaysian man, aged 46, was recorded in Labuan who was treated at the Labuan Hospital and had a history of high blood pressure,” he said.
He said that it brought the total death toll from COVID-19 to 199 cases or or 0.87 per cent of the total cases.
— NNN-BERNAMA
