PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry on Friday reported that new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia surged back to four digits at 1,304, with the Klang Valley recording a spike of 2.5 times at 567 positive cases compared to 224 on Thursday.
Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah
(pic) said this brings the cumulative figure for active cases to 11,822, as 900 cases had recovered Friday, to raise the total number of recoveries to 32,069.
He said of the 1,304 new cases, 1,300 were local transmissions while the rest were imported cases.
For the local infections, Sabah continued to record the highest with 556 cases, followed by Selangor (361), Kuala Lumpur (201), Negeri Sembilan (83) and Penang (42).
“The other states involved are Sarawak, Perak and Melaka with 13 cases each, Kedah and Kelantan with five cases each, Labuan (four), Johor (three) and Putrajaya (one),” he said at a daily press conference on Covid-19 here.
The four imported infections involved Malaysians who returned from overseas - three from Saudi Arabia and one from Egypt.
Dr Noor Hisham said one fatality was reported Friday, bringing the Covid-19 death toll to 304.
He said the latest death involved a 70-year-old Malaysian man at Hospital Tuaran in Sabah who had a history of high blood pressure.
A total of 96 Covid-19 cases were still being treated at the intensive care unit, with 39 requiring ventilator support, he added.
