PUTRAJAYA, 15 June 2020:
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 38 out of 41 new positive Covid-19 cases reported today were due to local transmissions.
From the 38 local transmission cases, he said 32 involved foreigners while six cases were among locals.
“This brings the cumulative positive cases to 8,494,” he told a media conference on Covid-19 development here today.
On the infection cases in the country involving non-citizens, Dr Noor Hisham said 31 cases were detected in Negeri Sembilan with 14 cases at the Immigration Academy of Malaysia in Port Dickson involving detainees transferred to the academy from the Immigration Detention Depot in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur.
“There were 15 cases in the Pedas cluster and two cases in the cleaning company cluster.” He said another case was detected in the federal capital through workplace screening by the employer.
On the spread of Covid-19 among locals, he said two cases were detected in Selangor with one acute respiratory infection (ARI) case in an old folks home in Kuala Selangor found in Tanjung Karang Hospital and one close contact case of Covid-19 victim number 8,294.
There were two cases in Melaka with one close contact case (case number 7,817) and one case of school or tahfiz screening. There was one case each from Negeri Sembilan tahfiz screening and in Sabah relating the close contact of 119th death victim (case number 8,403), he said.
Meanwhile, Dr Noor Hisham said three of the 41 new cases were reported to be import cases of Malaysians infected from abroad.
He also said there were no Covid-19 deaths recorded and fatality toll stays at 121 cases which is 1.42% from the overall cases.
There were 54 cases of recovery and cumulative total of discharged cases was 7,400 which is 87.1%.
“As such, the total active cases with Covid-19 infectivity is 973 cases and they are isolated and treated.
“To date, there are four positive cases being treated at the intensive care unit and there were no cases requiring respiratory assistance.”
In KOTA BHARU, a total of 44 close contacts to four Covid-19 positive students – who returned from Egypt – have been confirmed negative after screening tests were conducted.
However, Kelantan Health Department director Datuk Dr Zaini Hussin said all of them – who were relatives and acquaintances of the students – have been told to undergo self-quarantine for 14 days.
“As of now, all the close contacts of the four students have been detected.
“Currently, the four students are still undergoing treatment at the Tumpat Hospital, and they are asymptomatic, unlike the other patients,” he told reporters after the special State Security Working Committee meeting at Kota Darul Naim here today.
Dr Zaini said the four students were in stable condition and will be monitored for two weeks in the hospital.
The Ministry of Health had previously screened the students at the airport upon their arrival in Malaysia, but tests came back negative.
“However, the second screening test showed the four students were positive before they were sent to the Tumpat Hospital.”
– Bernama