Malaysia reviews 182 new coronavirus instances, highest jump in more than 3 months
13 September, 2020
Malaysia reported 182 new COVID-19 instances on Friday (Sep 11), the sharpest spike in a lot more than three months.
The brand new infections marked the biggest jump since Jun 4, when 277 cases and one death were reported.
Health director-standard Noor Hisham Abdullah said 181 of the brand new cases were hometown transmissions involving 90 Malaysians and 91 foreigners. The only real imported case was a Philippine national in Selangor.
A complete of 167 brand-new cases were recorded in the point out of Sabah at the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster, bringing the total to 337.
Dr Noor Hisham said the brand new infections included 91 foreigners from the Philippines and Indonesia.
Of the remaining cases among Malaysians in Sabah, 70 were prison inmates while six were customers of the general public who were detected through contact tracing.
Fourteen more cases were also detected in Kedah, with 11 traced to the Sungai cluster and three to the Telaga cluster.
Malaysia currently comes with 9,810 confirmed coronavirus infections, with a total of 128 fatalities.
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