KUALA LUMPUR,\u00a0Sept 21 (NNN-BERNAMA) — A total of 57 new positive COVID-19 cases were reported overnight in the country today,\u00a051 of them being local transmissions and the other six\u00a0import cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the 57, Sabah recorded 49 cases, including ones involving the Pulau cluster (14 cases) and Selamat Cluster (12 cases). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is a new cluster in Sabah, named the Kuarters cluster in Tongod. Also, there were no fatalities overnight, so the death toll remains at 130,\u201d he said in a statement on COVID-19 developments today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Noor Hisham said of the 51 new local transmissions, 45 involved Malaysians while the rest were foreigners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The import cases, meanwhile, were those who had returned from Indonesia (three cases) and one case each who returned from the United Kingdom, Pakistan and Zambia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This latest development brings the country\u2019s total number of infections to 10,276 cases, with 751 of them being active cases, Dr Noor Hisham said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, 40 recoveries were recorded today, bringing the number of recoveries so far to 9,395 cases or 91.43 per cent overall, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nine cases are being treated in the intensive care unit, with two of them requiring ventilator support, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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