Covid-19: Malaysia's cases go past 500,000 mark


PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has reached an unwanted milestone when the country’s cumulative Covid-19 cases breached the half-a-million mark on Saturday (May 22).

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that another 6,317 cases were reported, bringing the total cumulative cases to 505,115 since the first case in the country was reported on Jan 25 last year.

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