Malaysia reports 374 new COVID-19 cases and 3 deaths
11 October, 2020
Malaysia reported 374 new coronavirus cases on Saturday (Oct 10), a slight increase from the prior day, as health officials ramp up contact tracing in Sabah state where a huge number of cases have already been detected in the last few weeks.
The new cases improve the cumulative tally to 15,096 cases, based on the health ministry.
It is the 10th consecutive day that the amount of new COVID-19 cases remained at three digits.
Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the number of active cases now stands at 4,161.
Sabah continued to report the highest number of new cases with a total of 277 new cases reported.
This is due mainly to more screenings done, particularly in areas under the Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) and Administrative EMCO, said Dr Noor Hisham
“Selangor reported 44 cases, followed by Kedah with 27 cases, all involving Tembok cluster, while Sarawak recorded nine cases, Kuala Lumpur (four) and three in Penang.
“There were two cases each in Johor, Perak and Labuan, and one case in Melaka and Putrajaya,” Dr Noor Hisham said in an online media conference via medical Ministry’s Facebook account on Saturday.
Of the new cases, 372 were locally transmitted cases while two were imported cases - a Malaysian and a foreigner returning from the Philippines.
Of the 372 locally transmitted cases, 343 involved Malaysians and the remaining cases were foreigners.
"Seventeen of the neighborhood transmissions were those who had returned from Sabah, bringing the full total number of instances with a history of travel to Sabah since Sep 20 to 341 cases," he said.
All three new deaths were Malaysians in Sabah, said Dr Noor Hisham.
This takes Malaysia's death toll to 155.
The three deaths involved a 61-year old man with a brief history of diabetes and ocular tuberculosis at Tawau Hospital, a 54-year-old woman experiencing diabetes, high blood circulation pressure and obesity at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and a 51-year-old man with diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease at Semporna Hospital.
There have been 73 recovered patients reported on Saturday, bringing to the total number of recovered COVID-19 cases to 10,780, said Dr Noor Hisham.
Right now, 73 cases are treated in the intensive care unit, with 28 of them requiring respiratory aid, he added.
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