Covid 19 No Local Transmissions For First Time In Over A Month

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COVID-19 | Malaysia recorded no new locally transmitted cases of Covid-19 over the past 24 hours for the first time in over a month
The last time Malaysia recorded zero local infections was on July 14 after previous outbreaks of the disease in Kedah, Penang, Sarawak, Johor and other places
However, Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (above) said today there was a new but isolated cluster involving crewmembers aboard a ship in Bintulu, Sarawak
Four of the five crew members tested positive during screening, while test results for another crew member are still pending
“All these positive cases are imported cases that acquired their infections abroad, involving two Malaysian citizens and two non-citizens. The ship on which they work has a travel history to Japan
“They are being treated at the Bintulu Hospital in Sarawak
“This cluster does not pose any risk of infection to the community because it is an imported cluster that has been isolated on board a ship,” he said in a statement
He added that contact tracing was underway and the ship had already been decontaminated
The fifth imported case, meanwhile, is a non-citizen who arrived in Selangor from Bangladesh
The number of recovered patients exceeded new cases today with seven people being discharged
This leaves Malaysia with 183 Covid-19 cases still active while the total caseload since the beginning of the pandemic has reached 9,240
The number of patients being treated in intensive care units remained at seven but an additional person has been intubated
This brings the total number of patients who require ventilator support to four
The death toll remains unchanged at 125. - Mkini

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