THE Ministry of Health said today more than 70 % of imported Covid-19 cases nationwide had originated from Indonesia.

Director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said since the implementation of mandatory isolation at quarantine stations for Malaysians returning from abroad, 139 people have tested positive.

He said, of this, 99 people were returning from Indonesia, taking the lion’s share of the numbers or a little more than 71%.

“We have screened 12,672 people in quarantine, of which 139 have tested positive,” he said at the ministry’s daily press conference in Putrajaya today.

Noor Hisham said the other cases recorded were 14 Malaysians returning from the United Kingdom, 13 from Singapore, five from Turkey, three from the Netherlands, two from the United States and one each from Thailand, France and Bangladesh.

Noor Hisham said 100 patients have recovered from Covid-19 and been discharged from hospitals, a figure nearly triple that of the 38 new cases reported over the past 24 hours.

He also said that there were no reported deaths from the coronavirus during that time period, with the cumulative death toll remaining 98.

Noor Hisham also said 3,862 people have recovered from the virus, while the accumulated number of cases is now 5,780. – April 26, 2020.