COVID-19: 11 Straight Days Without Deaths

KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 (Bernama) -- Malaysia has continued to record positive developments in the fight against COVID-19, going 11 consecutive days without fatalities and new cases remaining in the single digit Thursday. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this meant that the death toll remained at 121, or 1.41 per cent of the total number of positive cases. “New COVID-19 cases in the country remained at single digit with four cases reported (today), bringing the cumulative figure to 8,600. "Three of the new cases were imported cases involving Malaysians who were infected overseas. One case was a local transmission involving a Malaysian, from screening of a Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) at Hospital Enche' Besar Hajjah Khalsom, Johor," he said in a statement Thursday. He said no local transmission was detected among foreigners in the country Thursday. Two positive cases are still being treated in the intensive care unit, and both did not require ventilator support, he added. -- BERNAMA