KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — The Health Ministry today announced 41 more people have been diagnosed as Covid-19 positive, putting Malaysia’s total number of cases at 8,494 to date.
However, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the total active cases currently stand at 973 — still below the 1,000 mark.
Dr Noor Hisham also said 54 people recovered today, putting the total cumulative recovered cases at 7,400.
He also said there were no new fatalities related to the coronavirus today, leaving the nation’s death tally at 121.
Out of the 41 new cases, three are imported with 32 consisting of foreigners and the remaining six Malaysians.
The cases involving foreigners are mostly located in Negri Sembilan; 14 were detected at the Immigration Academy of Malaysia in Port Dickson, and 15 were from the Pedas cluster. One other case was linked to a company conducting sanitation services here.
To date, the Ministry of Health has conducted 50,668 Covid-19 tests on non-Malaysians, with 2,502 persons diagnosed positive.
Currently, there are 569 non-Malaysians being treated for Covid-19, compared to 1,928 of those that had already recovered.
Dr Noor Hisham said currently four Covid-19 patients are in the intensive care unit, but none of them were on ventilators.
