Malaysia reports 15,215 new COVID-19 cases, 64 deaths

KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Health (MOH) registered another 15,215 new COVID-19 infections within the last 24 hours, taking the overall total to 4,167,418 since the start of the pandemic.

From the new cases logged, a total of 14,965 were locally transmitted involving 14,339 Malaysian citizens while 626 cases were non-citizens.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a statement said the country also recorded 64 COVID-19 deaths yesterday, of which 14 were declared as brought-in-dead (BID).

The country has registered a total of 34,906 deaths since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

Malaysia leads in the number of deaths per capita in the ASEAN and East Asian regions with 1,055 deaths per one million population.

According to the data reported by the ministry, 7,446 cases fell under Category 1, 7,635 cases under Category 2, 60 cases under Category 3, 26 cases under Category 4, and 48 cases under Category 5.

Meanwhile, a total of 24,154 patients have recovered from COVID-19, taking the total cumulative recoveries to 3,920,643.

Dr Noor Hisham said there were 4,843 COVID-19 patients being hospitalised, with 282 patients receiving treatment in Intensive Care Units (ICU), of whom 176 of them requiring respiratory assistance.