KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 — The number of new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia jumped to 147 cases while three more patients died today.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the new development takes the overall total for the outbreak to 10,505 cases and 133 deaths.
He said the new cases involve 143 local transmissions and four import cases.
For local transmission, he said it involved 115 Malaysians and 28 foreigners while the import cases involved three locals and one foreigner who returned from India ( three cases) and Indonesia (one case) , he said.
“For local transmission, 134 cases were detected in Sabah; five in Kedah; Selangor (two) and one each in Federal Territory Kuala Lumpur and Kelantan,” he said in a statement today.
— Bernama