COVID-19: 1,772 New Cases, Three Fatalities Tuesday - Health D-G

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 15 (Bernama) -- A total of 1,772 new COVID-19 positive cases and three fatalities were recorded in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll in the country to 422, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said the latest development took the total number of infections in the country to 86,618, with 14,515 of them being active cases. He said that 1,084 recoveries were also recorded during the same period, taking the total number of recoveries to 71,681 or 83.2 per cent of the total number of cases. “Of the new cases, 12 were imported cases who were infected abroad while the remaining 1,760 cases were local transmissions,” he said in a statement on COVID-19 Tuesday. Kuala Lumpur recorded the highest number of cases today, with 696 (39.3 per cent), of which 567 cases (81.5 per cent) were from the Damanlela Construction Site Cluster involving the fifth and sixth generations of the infection. -- BERNAMA