PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia recorded 14 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday (Sept 1), bringing the total cumulative number of infections to 9,354 cases, says the Health Ministry.
Five of the cases were imported, while nine involved local transmissions and of the local transmissions, five involved Malaysians.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that 21 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours, with a total of 9,075 patients discharged since the Covid-19 outbreak began, or a 97% recovery rate.
There are currently 151 active cases that are being treated at the country’s health facilities.
There was one death reported on Tuesday, with the death toll at 128, or 1.37% of all cases.
Dr Noor Hisham said the death was an 80-year-old Malaysian woman who had lung cancer and high-blood pressure.
The woman was a case from the Tawar Cluster, which has been detected in the northern states of Peninsular Malaysia.
Five patients are being treated at intensive care units (ICU), with three of them on ventilator support, Dr Noor Hisham added.
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