PETALING JAYA: Malaysia recorded another 6,380 Covid-19 cases, the Health Ministry said on Thursday (Nov 18).

       In a Twitter post, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said cumulatively, the country had recorded 2,569,533Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began.

       Earlier, the Health Ministry had said through its CovidNow portal that a total of 68 new Covid-19 fatalities were recorded on Wednesday (Nov 17), bringing the cumulative death toll to 6,036.

       Of the number, 12 deaths were classified as “brought-in-dead”.

       As of Wednesday, a total of 5,780 people are currently hospitalised due to Covid-19 and of this there are 285 patients in intensive care units (ICU) who do not require ventilator support, while another 251 are on ventilators.