Health workers conduct Covid-19 case detection. — Bernama file photo
KUCHING (Aug 9): Sarawak’s latest Covid-19 cases came in at 589 today, a slight increase of eight cases from yesterday’s 581.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a Facebook post said the state’s cumulative number of cases now stands at 81,917.
Selangor continued to rack up the biggest number of cases in the country at 5,740 followed by Kuala Lumpur (1,567), Kedah (1,328), Sabah (1,247), Johor (1,232), and Negeri Sembilan (1,215).
Other states which reported new cases were Perak (935), Kelantan (914), Penang (908), Pahang (604), Terengganu (501), Melaka (360), Putrajaya (66), Perlis (22) and
Labuan with eight cases.
Malaysia recorded a total of 17,236 new cases today, bringing the cumulative total of positive cases in the country to 1,279,776 cases.