CORONAVIRUS | The 15 new infections today have pushed total active cases to 103, another death recorded.
| The country recorded 15 new Covid-19 infections today, pushing the number of active cases above the 100 mark for the first time in 18 days.
A majority of the new local transmissions were detected in Sarawak, comprising five Malaysians and one non-citizen. However, the Sarawak government had decided to postpone the resumption of school to Aug 3 for three districts, namely Kuching, Padawan and Samarahan.The SDMC said the teacher was from Kedah who returned to Sarawak on July 1 ahead of his teaching duties and was ordered to undergo home quarantine as per the standard operating procedure .
According to the Health Ministry's statement, outside of Sarawak, five new local transmissions were reported involving three Malaysians and two foreigners. "He was confirmed to be positive with Covid-19 and was confirmed dead on July 17 at 12.51am," Noor Hisham said. As for the Kuala Lumpur restaurant cluster, he said it is located in Brickfields and was discovered during random testing.
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