SARAWAK had just under 1,000 new Covid-19 cases today, heading the nationwide total of 2,551 fresh infections in the last 24 hours.

Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Sarawak had 960 cases, followed by Selangor with the second highest number of new infections at 590. Kuala Lumpur came next with 245 cases.

He said the new cases raised the country’s caseload to 370,528.

It is the second day in a row that cases have surged past 2,000 since February 28.

Noor Hisham said 29 of today’s cases were imported while the remaining stemmed from local transmission.

Noor Hisham said 1,524 people had recovered from the coronavirus, taking the total number of recoveries to 350,563.

The country also reported two fatalities, which raised the death toll to 1,365.

Meanwhile, 227 patients are currently being treated at Intensive Care Units of hospitals, of whom 91 are on respiratory support. – April 16, 2021.