Malaysia reports 293 new coronavirus cases; no new deaths
05 October, 2020
Malaysia reported 293 new coronavirus cases on Sunday (Oct 4), taking its final number of infections to 12,381. Fatalities remained at 137, without new deaths recorded.
Malaysia has seen record daily increases in virus cases this week, partly as a result of clusters associated with an election in the eastern state of Sabah on Borneo.
Out of your new infections, one was an imported case and 292 of these were local transmissions. Among the local transmissions, 269 of them involved Malaysians and 23 were non-citizens, said Malaysia's health ministry director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah.
There were 28 patients obtaining treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU), with four of these intubated, he added.
A complete of 67 more COVID-19 patients have been discharged, bringing the full total number of recovered cases to 10,283, he added.
It was reported simply a day earlier that Malaysia said it not reimpose widespread novel coronavirus restrictions on travel despite a recently available spike in infections, which a government minister said was partly due to migrants from neighbouring countries.
Malaysia imposed a nationwide lockdown in March but has been slowly but surely lifting the curbs, though authorities have warned that they may be reinstated if daily increases in infections reached triple-digits.
Malaysia's security minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the federal government did not start to see the have to re-impose the lockdown as the majority of cases were being reported in detention centres and isolated districts.
"There's just a few cases in each state so it's not something that's worrying at this point," Ismail told reporters.
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