KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 — The Health director-general reported 71 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) patients today, after days of promising drops in fresh infections.
According to Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, 90 more former Covid-19 patients have fully recovered and been discharged as of noon today.
“As seen from the recent trend, the number of cases discharged today continued to outpace new infections reported,” he said.
He also reported two more Covid-19 deaths, however, including one medical worker.
The medical worker was a 32-year-old woman from the Health Ministry. She had a history of hypertension and had been infected as part of the Muar cluster.
The other fatality involved a 67-year-old Malaysian man with diabetes, hypertension, as well as heart and kidney disease. He contracted Covid-19 from the Bali cluster.
Both deaths raised Malaysia’s Covid-19 death toll to 95 or 1.7 per cent of all patients.
Despite today’s increase in new cases, Dr Noor Hisham pointed out that active cases remained under 2,000 while the recovery rate was now 63.2 per cent of the 5,603 total cases.
The number of patients needing intensive care and ventilators also decreased today, falling to 42 and 21, respectively.
