Malaysia's new COVID-19 cases top 4,000 in another record

Malaysia on Saturday (Jan 16) reported an archive most of 4,029 new COVID-19 situations and eight more deaths.

Aside from eight imported situations, the rest are local transmissions, said wellbeing director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah.

This takes the total number of infections nationwide to 155,095. The death toll from COVID-19 stands at 594.

Dr Noor Hisham said Selangor continued to record the highest amount of daily infections, with 1,466 cases, accompanied by Johor (719 conditions) and Sabah (449 conditions).

A total of 205 patients are being treated in the intensive care unit, with 79 of these intubated, he added.

The update of the coronavirus situation comes as Malaysia mourns the loss of life of former lord president Mohamed Salleh Abas, who headed Malaysia’s Supreme Court from 1984 to 1988. The position of lord president was renamed chief justice in 1994.

Dr Mohamed Salleh had tested positive for COVID-19 days previous, Bernama reported, and died of pneumonia on Saturday morning hours at age 91.

CASES CONTINUE STEADILY TO SPIKE

Malaysia features reported four-digit daily rises in COVID-19 cases for about a month since it struggles to contain it is third wave of infections, breaking its record for new circumstances 3 x this week alone.

Malaysia's king Al-Sultan Abdullah declared circumstances of emergency in the united states on Tuesday, a working day after the primary minister released that five claims, including Penang, Selangor, Melaka, Johor and Sabah, and the government territories of Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan would come under a good Movement Control Buy (MCO).

The northern state of Kelantan was located under MCO restrictions on Friday, bringing the full total number of damaged states to six.

Sarawak is also enforcing an MCO found in the Sibu division, in a decision authorities took following a spike in new infections during the last several times. Sarawak reported 180 new cases on Thursday, an archive daily rise for the talk about. The MCO will become implemented from Jan 16 to 29.

A good ban on interstate travel is in force in the united states until Jan 26 in order to curb the spread of the virus.

 

In a tweet on Thursday, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Khairy Jamaluddin said Malaysia expects to get its primary shipment of vaccines the following month. One million doses are due to get to the first quarter of this calendar year, while 1.7 million, 5.8 million and 4.3 million will arrive in the next, third and fourth quarters, Mr Khairy said.

The authorities plan to vaccinate “the virtually all high-risk groups … frontline personnel of the security and health sectors”, he said, followed by older people and “additional adult populations to create herd immunity”.

“If you are a healthy adult under the age of 60 and not a frontline employee, the earliest (you may expect) to receive the vaccine will be in the third quarter of the entire year,” he added.