COVID-19: Back To Double Digits With 58 New Cases In Malaysia- Health DG

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 (Bernama) -- The number of new COVID-19 cases in the country went back to double digits Saturday after 58 cases were recorded, with 53 of them being local transmissions and five more imported. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 29 of the local transmissions involved Malaysians while the rest were foreigners. The imported cases, involving three Malaysians and two foreigners, were from Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Syria and the Philippines. “There were 48 new cases in Sabah, of which 44 were from the LD cluster, three from the new Laut cluster and one more detected from pre-surgery screening at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Kota Kinabalu,” he said in a statement here Saturday, adding that 24 of those cases involved foreigners. In Kedah meanwhile, Dr Noor Hisham said there five new cases from the Sungai cluster, bringing the total number of active cases in the country to 551, adding that to date, there are nine cases being treated in the intensive care unit (ICU), with five of them requiring ventilator support. The country’s COVID-19 death toll remains at 128 cases while a total of 9,189 patients have fully recovered, he added. -- BERNAMA