MCO day 114: End of local Covid-19 transmissions?

KUALA LUMPUR, 9 July 2020: 

Efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19 in the country continues to show good results – as zero local transmission was recorded in the last 24 hours for the second day in a row.

No new deaths were recorded and the death toll remains at 121 for the 24th consecutive day.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said only six new cases were reported today, all of which were imported cases – comprising five locals and one non-citizen who was a permanent resident.

“This brings the cumulative number of Covid-19 positive cases in Malaysia to 8,683, while the number of active cases is 63,” he said in a statement today.

He said 13 cases had recovered and were allowed to be discharged today, bringing the cumulative number of recovered cases to 8,499 or 97.9% of the overall number of cases.

Dr Noor Hisham said only two cases were being treated in the intensive care unit, with one case requiring a ventilator to breathe.

Meanwhile, he also announced the end of a Covid-19 cluster involving a cleaning company based in Kuala Lumpur, today.

He said 33 people from this cluster, comprising 16 locals and 17 non-citizens have been screened.

Of this number, four were found to be Covid-19 positive, including three employees and a close-contact case, all of whom are Indonesians.

For the record, 15 clusters have been detected at workplaces, and the Kuala Lumpur Cleaning Company Cluster is the 11th cluster to be declared to have ended.

– Bernama