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BERNAMA
19/09/2020 06:26 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19 -- A total of 20 new positive COVID-19 cases, involving 17 local transmissions were recorded in the country today, while one fatality was reported in Kedah.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this brought the COVID-19 case tally in Malaysia to 10,167 of which 722 are active cases, while the death toll now stands at 130.
As for the new local transmissions, 14 of them involved Malaysians and the rest were foreigners.
Nine of them were recorded in Kedah, including eight from the Sungai Cluster and one more a Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) patient at the Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital, while the rest were in Sabah.
“The eight in Sabah are three screening cases involving references to the Tawau Hospital, involving two foreigners, one SARI case at Tawau Hospital, one pre-surgery case at Keningau Hospital, one community screening case in Tawau, one case from the Benteng LD Cluster and one more from the new Bakau Cluster involving a non-Malaysian,” he said.
-- BERNAMA
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