The Covid 19 ward of the Shah Alam Hospital July 23, 2021. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah announced today that 1,075 Covid-19 patients have been warded in intensive care units (ICU). — Picture by Miera Zulyana
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 — Another 277 people died from Covid-19 nationwide today, raising the cumulative fatality count to 11,968 since the pandemic began in Malaysia last year.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah also announced that 1,075 Covid-19 patients have been warded in intensive care units (ICU).
He said 537 of those in ICU need ventilators to breathe.
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