Health Ministry reports 5 new deaths from COVID-19, 3 new clusters

PUTRAJAYA, March 29 – The Ministry of Health today reported five new deaths from the COVID-19 infection, raising the number of deaths registered in the country so far to 1,260.

Announcing this in its official twitter, the ministry also noted that three news clusters had been identified with two arising at workplace and one in a community.

Todate, a total of 327, 406 people have recovered from the virus including the 1,097 people reported today.

The number of new cases todat also saw a reduction at 941 with 933 of them locals and eight imported cases. This brought the total cases to 342,885.

Meanwhile, 166 people are still being treated in Intensive Care Units with 73 of them on ventilators.

–WE