Record number of deaths


PETALING JAYA: The country recorded 16 deaths yesterday, the highest since the first MCO was declared to combat the Covid-19 pandemic last March.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this brought the total death toll in Malaysia to 537 cases.

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