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Malaysia reports 287 new COVID-19 cases in highest daily spike
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 02, 2020 (BSS/XINHUA) — Malaysia reported 287 new COVID-19 infections in the highest daily spike since the outbreak, the Health Ministry said on Friday, bringing the national total to 11,771.
Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press briefing that none of the new cases were imported, all being local transmissions. Some 128 cases were reported from a cluster related to a prison in the northern Kelantan State.
Health authorities have also detected two new case clusters.
The official said that while the country had achieved some success against COVID-19, the public had become fatigued and are not following the standard operating procedures (SOP), undoing months of work after bringing down new cases to single digits.
“So we can feel the fatigue, but not the virus. (The) virus, the moment we let down our guard, the virus will continue to spread,” he said.
Another 81 patients have been released after recovery, bringing the total cured and discharged to 10,095, or 85.8 percent of all cases.
Of the remaining 1,540 active cases, 22 are being held in intensive care and four of those are in need of assisted breathing.
No new deaths have been reported, leaving the total deaths at 136.
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