KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 19 — A total of 1,153 new Covid-19 positive cases were reported in the country over the past 24 hours, with Selangor still recording the highest daily tally of 401, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said the latest development took the total number of infections in Malaysia to 91,969, with 15,294 of them being active cases.
"Of the new cases, two were imported cases who were infected abroad while the remaining 1,151 cases were local transmissions,” he said in a statement today.
Kuala Lumpur had the second highest number of cases today with 281, followed by Sabah (199 cases).
"A total of 176 of the reported cases were linked to the prison and Immigration detention depot clusters involving the Jalan Harapan Prison Cluster (96 cases) and Tembok Cluster (80 cases), he said.
Meanwhile, one fatality was recorded today when a 76-year-old local woman, with a history of high blood pressure and dyslipidemia, died in Penang.
That took the death toll in the country to 433, which is 0.47 per cent of the total number of cases.
Dr Noor Hisham also said that 112 patients were currently being treated in the intensive care unit, with 56 of them intubated.
— Bernama
