KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 — Malaysia added another 70 new Covid-19 infections today as the country, continuing the upward trend after previously reaching a record new low on May 5.

A day after Putrajaya announced a four-week extension of the movement control order (MCO) until June 9, Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in his daily Covid-19 briefing today that 88 former patients have fully recovered and been discharged.

“Of the 70 cases reported, 31 were from non-Malaysians.

“This also brings Malaysia’s total Covid-19 cases to 6,726 cases as of noon. As such, the number of active and infectious cases is currently 1,504 cases,” he said.

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In his daily Covid-19 briefing, Dr Noor Hisham also disclosed that 13 of the new cases were imported while the remaining 57 were of local transmission.

To date, 20 patients tested positive for Covid-19 are being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), with seven of them requiring breathing assistance.

He also reported yet another Covid-19 death, raising the death toll to 109 or 1.62 per cent of the total accumulative cases reported to date.

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The latest death was a 63-year-old Malaysian man with a history of diabetes and liver cancer who died at Hospital Kuala Lumpur.

“The deceased came for treatment on May 8 before he was pronounced dead yesterday at 5.15am,” he said.

Dr Noor Hisham also said the three existing enhance movement control order (EMCO) clusters — Pusat Bandar Utara and Pasar Borong Kuala Lumpur, Selayang Baru and Jalan Othman wet market in Petaling Jaya — have maintained their status quo with no new Covid-19 cases reported today.

For active Covid-19 clusters, Dr Noor Hisham said the Chow Kit market cluster reported 29 new cases today, bringing the total number of positive individuals to 82 with 66 of them comprising non-Malaysians.

Several other clusters reported an increase in cases, including the Pesantren cluster with eight new cases today, thus bringing the total number of cases to 230.

Both the Sendayan tahfiz centre cluster and Cheras security guard cluster reported one new case each, bringing the total number of cases to 110 and 13 respectively.