COVID-19: 115 new cases recorded, Sabah still tops list - Health DG

Bernama
September 28, 2020 21:07 MYT
Dr Noor Hisham said that the new cases reported included 112 local transmissions, involving 98 Malaysians and 14 foreigners, as well as three imported cases.
KUALA LUMPUR: The number of new COVID-19 cases in the country remains in three digits as 115 cases are recorded today, with Sabah still topping the list with 98 cases, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said that the new cases reported included 112 local transmissions, involving 98 Malaysians and 14 foreigners, as well as three imported cases.
Of the local transmission cases, 11 of them had a history of travel to Sabah, he said.
"Local cases today involved Sabah (98 cases) and Selangor (10 cases), while Terengganu, Melaka, Kedah and Labuan had one case each, and the three imported cases involved those returning from India.
"There is a new cluster detected in Selangor, the Jalan Apas Cluster, and there are no new deaths reported today," he said in a statement on the development of COVID-19 here today.
He said that this meant that the cumulative number of COVID-19 positive cases in Malaysia now surpassed the 11,000 mark, with 11,034 cases, while the active cases with infectivity are at 1,011 cases, with 54 have recovered, bringing the total recovered cases to 9,889.
There are eight cases being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with five of them in need of respiratory assistance, he said.
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