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Based on the data from the COVIDNOW portal, there were 5 imported cases, while 2,351 were of local transmissions.

Based on the data from the COVIDNOW portal, there were 3,298 local transmissions and two new imported cases.

The Sri Petaling tabligh gathering cluster, which became the epicentre of the country's Covid-19 pandemic, has finally been resolved.

Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said no new cases from the cluster have been detected for 28 days.

Noor Hisham added that the country recorded no new Covid-19 cases from local transmission today.

This is the second time in a week the country has recorded no new local transmission. The last was on July 2nd.

Malaysia recorded 38 new Covid-19 cases, the majority of which are Malaysians returning from abroad.

Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 26 of the cases were imported while 12 were local transmissions.

From the imported cases, 20 were Malaysians returning from Egypt, four from Indonesia and two from the United Kingdom.

Meanwhile, Dr Hisham urged Malaysians to not stigmatise foreign nationals following a spike in cases involving non-Malaysians last week.

A total of 58 new COVID-19 Omicron variant cases have been confirmed, with 54 of them being imported cases and four local transmissions, said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

Initial investigation found that the case involved local transmissions among the resort workers and did not involve any tourists.

The new fatalities involved 16 males and 14 females aged between 15 and 85 years old.

The fourth wave of COVID-19 will only happen if cases involving domestic or local transmission record zero in the current third wave, before the number of cases increases sharply the next day.

A total of 1,758 were local transmissions while nine more were import cases.

3,387 of the new cases were local transmissions while eight were imported, bringing the cumulative figure for positive cases to 234,874.

Fifty-five of the new cases were local transmission, with the remaining 20 classified as imported cases.

The Philippine health ministry said the B.1.1.7 variant had spread among 12 people in Bontoc.

Malaysia recorded the highest number of new COVID-19 cases today with 2,335, bringing the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases in the country to 103,900.

Malaysia recorded a total of 911 recoveries today, bringing the total number of cases recovered to 79,304.

Until this week, Australia had gone more than two weeks without any local transmission, allowing most states and territories to remove nearly all social distancing curbs.