KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 — COVID-19 claimed 153 lives over 24 hours up to noon today, the highest number of fatalities in a single day.
The daily death toll is a jump from the 138 fatalities reported yesterday.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the country’s COVID-19 death toll now stands at 7,019 cases.
He said of the fatalities reported today, 125 involved Malaysians while 28 more were foreigners.
They involve fatalities in Selangor (82), Kuala Lumpur (17); Negeri Sembilan (14); Johor (10); Kedah (eight), Pahang (six); Melaka (five); two cases each in Sabah, Penang and Putrajaya and one case each in Terengganu, Sarawak, Kelantan, Perak and Labuan.
Dr Noor Hisham said 5,778 recovered cases were reported today, taking the total number of recoveries to 779,171 cases, while 909 patients are being treated in the intensive care unit (ICU), 445 of whom require respiratory support.
The country now has 124,593 active cases, he said in a statement on COVID-19 developments today.
