New Covid-19 cases exceed recoveries again


Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Malaysia added another 69 new coronavirus disease infections today. — Picture by Choo Choy May
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Malaysia added another 69 new coronavirus disease infections today. — Picture by Choo Choy May

KUALA LUMPUR, May 1 — Malaysia added another 69 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infections today, outstripping full recoveries yet again.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in his daily Covid-19 briefing today that 39 former patients have fully recovered and been discharged.

“This brings Malaysia’s total Covid-19 cases to 6,071 cases. As such, the number of active and infectious cases is currently 1,758 cases,” he said.

He also reported yet another Covid-19 death, raising the death toll to 103.

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