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Health Ministry says six new Covid-19 cases today, half from Tawar cluster

Wednesday, 26 Aug 2020 06:23 PM MYTHealth director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Malaysia has six new Covid-19 cases today, with the majority of them local transmissions and only one infection coming from overseas. — Picture by Choo Choy May

This puts to the cumulative positive cases in the country at 9,291 to date, with the total number of active cases a 188. “On the local transmission, three cases were reported from the Tawar cluster while one case was detected from severe acute respiratory infection and the other was detected during the symptom screening in Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital,” he said in a statement.

 

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