COVID-19 Positive Cases Drop To 1,555 - Health DG

KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 (Bernama) -- The number of new COVID-19 positive cases in the country in the past 24 hours dropped to 1,555 compared to 1,828 Monday, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said the latest development took the total number of infections in the country to 304,135, with 24,563 of them being active cases. He said that of the new cases, three were imported cases who were infected abroad while 1,552 were local transmissions. "All three imported cases involved foreigners while the local transmissions involved 1,108 Malaysians and 444 foreigners. "A total of 2,528 recoveries were also reported today, taking the total number of recoveries to 278,431,” he told the daily COVID-19 press conference Tuesday. -- BERNAMA