COVID-19: 3,585 new infections today, 700 deaths in a year

KUALA LUMPUR:Malaysia recorded 11 new deaths two days in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The figure thus brings the number of casualties due to the COVID-19 epidemic in Malaysia within a year to 700 deaths.

In the last 24 hours, the Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah informed that a total of 3,585 new COVID-19 infections were reported, bringing the total number of cases to 190,434.

According to him, of the total, two cases of imports were recorded receiving infections from abroad while the rest were local contagions.

"There are currently 40,574 active cases with COVID-19 infectivity," he said in a media statement on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Dr Noor Hisham also said that the state of Selangor continued to record the highest daily cases for the transmission of COVID-19 infection with an increase of 1,295 cases followed by Kuala Lumpur (610 cases) and Johor (516 cases).

To date, a total of 280 patients are receiving treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and 111 of whom needing respiratory assistance.

Meanwhile, the number of recovery cases continued to increase with 4,076 people having fully recovered, bringing the cumulative number of cases recovered to 149,160.