PUTRAJAYA, Oct 28 (NNN-BERNAMA) — A total of 801 new COVID-19 cases were recorded today, of which 81 per cent was contributed by states placed under the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO), said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said 546 cases were from Sabah, while states in the Klang Valley recorded 103 cases, with 89 in Selangor and 14 in Kuala Lumpur.
The other cases were recorded in Negeri Sembilan (24 cases), Labuan (29), Sarawak (27), Penang (19), Perak (six), Johor (eight), Kedah (28) and Terengganu (11).
Of the cases, two were imported cases detected in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur involving a Malaysian and a foreigner arriving from Iran and Saudi Arabia.
“This brings the cumulative tally for positive cases to 29,411 while the number of active cases with infectivity potential stands at 10,123. All the patients have been isolated and given treatment,” he said at a press conference on the development of COVID-19 here today.
Dr Noor Hisham said there were 573 recoveries today, taking the cumulative recovery tally to 19,072 or 64.8 per cent of the total number of cases.
There are 94 cases currently being treated in the intensive care unit, with 25 requiring ventilator assistance.
He said there were also eight new fatalities today, taking the COVID-19 death toll in Malaysia to 246 or 0.8 per cent of the total number of cases.
— NNN-BERNAMA