10 new cases recorded

PUTRAJAYA: Only 10 new Covid-19 cases were recorded yesterday, bringing the current cumulative total to 7,629 cases, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.

This is the lowest daily case recorded since the Movement Control Order (MCO) was enforced on March 18.

Another good news is that there has been no fatality recorded since last week, keeping the death toll at 115.

He said another 86 cases had recovered and were discharged today, bringing the total number of recoveries to 6,169 cases or 80.9 per cent of the positive cases.

“As at noon today, eight patients are being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), including four who require ventilator support,” he said at a daily Covid-19 media briefing here yesterday.

He said all the new cases were local transmissions, of which five cases were nonMalaysians, adding that there were no imported cases.

Dr Noor Hisham said since the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) was implemented on May 4, transmission of Covid-19 among the local population had been decreasing.

“Almost a month since the CMCO implementation, the number of positive cases recorded from May 4 up to May 27 was 1,189 cases, of which 22.7 per cent (270 cases) involved Malaysians, while 77.3 per cent (919 cases) involved noncitizens, which included 383 foreigners at three Immigration Detention Depots.

“We would not have achieved the results without public cooperation and compliance of the government’s advice, recommendations and standard operating procedures (SOPs) as well as enforcement activities by the various government agencies.”