Health DG: Jump in Covid-19 cases due to returning students from Indonesia


PUTRAJAYA, 29 April -- Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah pada sidang media harian berkaitan jangkitan COVID-19 di Kementerian Kesihatan hari ini. Sebanyak 94 kes baharu positif COVID-19 dilaporkan setakat tengah hari tadi, sekali gus menjadikan jumlah kumulatif kes yang positif di negara ini sebanyak 5,945 kes manakala yang sembuh sebanyak 55 kes dan tiada kes kematian akibat jangkitan itu direkodkan hari ini dengan jumlah kumulatif kematian kekal 100 kes. -- fotoBERNAMA (2020) HAK CIPTA TERPELIHARA

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia records a slight jump in its new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday (Apr 29), after confirming 72 new infections among returning students from Indonesia.

The 72 are related to the "Pesantren Cluster" detected among Malaysian students who returned to the country from Indonesia’s Magentan region earlier.

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