Health Ministry: Seven more deaths, but new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia drop to 1,680

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A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a frontliner at the UiTM Private Specialist Centre in Sungai Buloh March 2, 2021. ― Picture by Hari Anggara
A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a frontliner at the UiTM Private Specialist Centre in Sungai Buloh March 2, 2021. ― Picture by Hari Anggara

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KUALA LUMPUR, March 6 — Malaysia recorded more lives claimed by Covid-19 today, with seven patients succumbing to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

This brings the total number of deaths since the pandemic reached the country’s shores a year ago to 1,166.

The Ministry of Health’s (MOH) Covid-19 information centre, however, reported a continued downward trajectory of new cases, with 1,680 logged today.

This brings the total number of cases in the country to 311,777 since Covid-19 was first reported here.

The number of recoveries also continued to outnumber new cases, with 2,548 recorded today for a total of 289,452 recoveries so far.

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