A TOTAL of 140 patients have recovered and were discharged yesterday after being infected with Covid-19, with new cases standing at 10, of which seven are locals, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

He said active cases now stand at 521.

He added that of the new cases, five were detected in Selangor – with four linked to a senior citizens’ cluster in Kuala Selangor – while one was detected during a screening at a tahfiz centre.

Another case was detected in Sarawak, involving a family member of a positive case, while one more close contact of a patient in Sabah also tested positive for the coronavirus.

Meanwhile, one of the three cases involving foreigners was detected at the Immigration Academy in Port Dickson, while another was linked to a cleaning contractors’ cluster.

The third case involving an Indonesian woman was detected during pre-surgery screening at a hospital in Sabah.

The total number of recoveries is 7,873, or 92.5% of the total number of cases.

Noor Hisham said the national toll of infections is 8,515.

“Four patients are currently warded in intensive care units,” he said in his daily media briefing in Putrajaya today.

No fatalities were reported, leaving the death toll at 121. – June 17, 2020.