A health worker in protective suit collects swab samples from a motorist at a drive-through testing site for Covid-19 at Ajwa Clinic in Shah Alam February 9, 2022. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 14 — Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 cases recorded a slight uptick with the Health Ministry detecting 21,315 new infections in the past 24 hours.
The latest figure represents a marked increase of 243 cases from 21,072 new infections recorded yesterday.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah also disclosed that only 87 or 0.4 per cent of cases reported today were in Categories 3, 4 and 5 that required hospitalisation.
It also brings the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country, since the start of the pandemic, to 3,061,550.
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