Malaysia's new Covid-19 cases fall below 2,000-mark

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia's daily Covid-19 cases have dropped to 1,924 in the past 24 hours on Thursday (Feb 25), after consistently recording more than 2,000 cases since Jan 5.

This is a drastic drop from the 3,545 cases registered on Wednesday.

The last time the country recorded less than 2,000 daily cases was on Jan 4 when it registered 1,741 cases then.

The country’s health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Selangor logged the highest number of infections with 666 cases, followed by Johor, Sarawak and Kuala Lumpur with 257, 219 and 218 cases respectively.

He said of the 1,924 new cases, 1,918 are local transmissions (1,543 Malaysians and 375 foreigners) and the remaining six cases are imported (two Malaysians and four foreigners).

"This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases to date to 293,698, including 28,837 active cases," he posted on Facebook on Thursday.

The number of active cases has been on a steady decline since Feb 10 when it recorded 52,186 active cases.

Dr Noor Hisham said the number of recoveries outnumbered daily new infections with 3,752 patients discharged in the past 24 hours.

This raised the total number of recoveries from Covid-19 to 263,761 (or 89.81 per cent), he said.

He said there were also 12 new fatalities on Thursday, bringing the national death toll to 1,100 (0.37 per cent).

He added that 205 patients are being treated at Intensive Care Units, with 91 requiring respiratory aid. NEW STRAITS TIMES