Malaysian reported 17 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, bringing the cumulative total to 6,872.
FILE PHOTO: A security guard checks a customer’s temperature at a mall entrance as Malaysia reopens a majority of businesses, after a movement control order was imposed to fight the outbreak of the coronavirus disease , in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia May 4, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey TengKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia reported 17 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday , the second-lowest figure since the movement control order came into force about two months ago.
Six of the new cases were imported cases while 11 were local transmissions involving non-Malaysians, said health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah at the daily media conference.“This brings the total of COVID-19 positive cases in the country to 6,872 while the number of infectivity cases is 1,247,” he added.The latest fatality was a 53-year-old Malaysian woman with a history of cancer and high blood pressure.
Seventy-three more people have been discharged, bringing the total number of those who have fully recovered to 5,512.Thirteen patients are in the intensive care unit, with five of them requiring ventilators. Malaysia had on May 12 reported its lowest number of daily cases - 16 - since the MCO started on Mar 18.ease a ban on Friday prayers in mosquesAll mosques in the federal territory, including Kuala Lumpur, will allow Friday prayers involving no more than 30 people.
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