Bangkok, May 19, (dpa/GNA) – Over 6,000 people tested positive for coronavirus over the past 24 hours, Malaysia’s Health Ministry reported on Wednesday, a single-day record for the 32-million-population nation.
On Tuesday, the ministry reported a record one-day death toll of 47, taking the total to almost 2,000.
Over 500 people are being treated in intensive care units.
Malaysia’s outbreak is the most severe in South-East Asia and lags only slightly behind India’s, measured per-capita, according to official data collated by the University of Oxford’s Our World in Data.
The 6,075 cases reported on Wednesday take the total to almost 500,000, with over 430,000 listed by the Health Ministry as “recovered.”
The government imposed a third nationwide lockdown last week, with the measures set to run for one month. “Stay at home unless you have to go out,” the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
GNA