News by Syafiqah Salim

The country reported a double-digit number of new infections again after five straight days  of single-digit daily cases since July 5.

No death was reported for 25 days in a row.  Thus, Malaysia’s Covid-19 death toll remains at 121, representing 1.39% of total cases.

The last case in this cluster was reported on June 11, involving a student from the Philippines who attended a tahfiz school in Sungai Lui, Hulu Langat, Selangor.

And with no new fatalities reported, the death toll remained at 121 — unchanged for the 24th day in a row — representing 1.39% of total infections.

It is the sixth consecutive day that the number of active cases remained under 100.

The number of active cases fell to 71 today — the lowest since the start of the Movement Control Order (MCO) period — with patients already isolated and given treatment.

“We will not swab (take a swab of) everyone; we will only swab those who have symptoms.”

This is the fifth straight day Malaysia has experienced a single-digit number of new infections since June 29.

Of the three new cases today, two were local transmissions involving foreigners while one was a Malaysian who was infected while overseas, according to the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

Ministry of Health (MoH) director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the lone case involved a Malaysian who had returned from Turkey, which meant that no local transmissions were recorded today.