COVID-19: 69 New Cases And One Death - Health DG

PUTRAJAYA, May 1 (Bernama) -- The new COVID-19 positive cases remain in double digits with 69 new cases recorded as of noon today, bringing the tally of positive cases in the country to 6,071. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the new cases, 12 are imported while the remaining 57 cases are local transmissions. He said during the same period, 39 recovery cases recorded, taking the cumulative number of recovered patients to 4,210 cases or 69.3 per cent of the total positive cases in the country, while 37 cases are being treated at the intensive care units with 14 of them on ventilators. “The number of COVID-19 infectivity cases is 1,758. They have been isolated and been given treatment,” he said at a daily media briefing on COVID-19 here today. Meanwhile, Dr Noor Hisham said the last 24 hours also saw one fatality, bringing the COVID-19 death toll in the country to 103 cases or 1.69 per cent of the total positive cases. Meanwhile, Dr Noor Hisham advised employers and workers to adhere to the standard operating procedure (SOP) applies under the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) announced by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin today. He stressed that all employers and workers need to get used to the new normal in their lives and ways of working to ensure the spread of COVID-19 infections could be contained further. “This is very important so that all efforts carried out all this time to break the chain of COVID-19 infection continues to remain effective,” he said. However, Dr Noor Hisham said Malaysians should continue to remain at home and only go out when necessary. Earlier, the prime minister announced that the government to enforce CMCO by allowing most of the economic and social activities to resume beginning May 4. He said this decision was taken after two of the six strategies adopted by the government to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and build resilience through the Prihatin Economic Stimulus Package have yielded positive results. However, activities that involved large gatherings and ones that could expose the public to the risks of infection are still disallowed. -- BERNAMA