260 new cases, three deaths in Sabah

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah recorded 260 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, said State Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Masidi Manjun.

Masidi, who is also the state’s Covid-19 official spokesperson, said that Lahad Datu recorded the highest number of cases with 79 cases yesterday, followed by Kota Kinabalu (36) and Tuaran (31).

“Out of the 260 new cases, a total of 139 cases (53.5%) were detected through close contact screenings at 15 districts, 52 cases (20%) were from existing clusters, 34 cases (13.1%) were from symptomatic screenings, eight cases (3%) were from community screenings and another 27 cases (10.4%) were from the other categories,” he said in a statement yesterday.

Masidi disclosed that the state registered three Covid-19 fatalities yesterday, all of which were in Sandakan.

“No new cluster was detected,” he added.

A total of 400 Covid-19 patients in the state recovered from the virus yesterday.

Meanwhile, a total of 1,772 new Covid-19 cases were recorded nationwide yesterday in addition to the three fatalities in Sabah, taking the death toll in the country to 422, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

He said that 1,084 recoveries were also recorded during the same period, taking the total number of recoveries to 71,681 or 83.2 per cent of the total number of cases.

Kuala Lumpur recorded the highest number of cases yesterday, with 696 (39.3 per cent), of which 567 cases (81.5 per cent) were from the Damanlela Construction Site Cluster involving the fifth and sixth generations of the infection.

Dr Noor Hisham said Selangor had the second-highest number of cases with 503 (28.4 per cent), followed by Sabah with 260 (14.7 per cent).

Cluster (15 cases) and Bakti Cluster (six cases).

Dr Noor Hisham said 118 patients are currently being treated in the intensive care unit, with 56 of them intubated.

He said the three fatalities in Sandakan yesterday were a 45year-old woman with a history of diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease and stroke; an 88-year-old blind man with hypertension and prostate gland; and a 75-year-old man with a history of hypertension, chronic lung disease and heart ailment,” he said.