KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded 14 new cases of Covid-19 as of noon today, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.
He said in a statement that the 14 involved three imported cases and 11 local transmissions. There were now 408 active cases, which represented 4.78 per cent of the overall cases.
"The three imported cases involves two Malaysians and one foreigner who is a permanent resident.
"Out of the 11 local transmissions, seven are foreigners while four are Malaysians," he said.
Dr Noor Hisham said of the seven cases involving foreigners, two were in Kuala Lumpur.
The first case in Kuala Lumpur is the close contact or housemate of the country's 8,455th and 8,508th cases, and the other one is the close contact to case number 8,498 as they were living together.
"In Selangor, one case involved a close contact to case number 8,368, who is a family member to the new Covid-19 positive patient.
"In Sarawak, there were two cases recorded at a construction site. There was another case recorded of a person in the Penampang police station lock up in Sabah.
"There is one positive case involving a foreigner who was applying to leave the country to head to his home country."
When giving the break down of the four Malaysians who were found positive of Covid-19, Dr Noor Hisham said two of them worked at the Bukit Jalil immigration detention centre.
The remaining two Malaysians positive with the virus were detected in Sarawak. Of these two cases, one of them tested positive from a Covid-19 pre-operation screening at Hospital Umum Sarawak (HUS), Kuching; while the other tested positive during a screening when applying to leave the country for an important matter.
Dr Noor Hisham said there were now four Covid-19 patients being treated at the intensive care unit (ICU), but none of them needed breathing assistance or ventilator.
He said no death was recorded today, maintaining the country's Covid-19 death toll at 121 or 1.42 per cent.
The number of recovered cases as of noon today stood at 127, which brought the total number of recoveries to 8,000.