PETALING JAYA: Malaysia recorded another 6,288 Covid-19 cases, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday (Nov 17).

       In a Twitter post, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said cumulatively, the country had recorded 2,563,153 Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began.

       Earlier, the Health Ministry had said through its CovidNow portal that a total of 40 new Covid-19 fatalities were recorded on Tuesday (Nov 16), bringing the cumulative death toll to 29,769.

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

       As of Tuesday, a total of 5,789 people are currently hospitalised due to Covid-19 and of this there are 281 patients in intensive care units (ICU) who do not require ventilator support, while another 264 are on ventilators.