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A medical worker wearing a protective suit conducts a test at a free COVID-19 coronavirus testing site in Shah Alam While moderate by global standards, its outbreak has increased rapidly in recent weeks, and the numbers of patients in intensive care and on ventilators have hit record highs.
It reported 61 deaths on Friday, taking the total to 2,552. The number of daily fatalities has also reached records, with 63 earlier this week.
Malaysia reported 8,290 new coronavirus cases on Friday, its fourth straight day of record infections, bringing its total to 549,514. “With the latest rise in daily cases showing a drastically upward trend, hospital capacity across the country to treat COVID-19 patients are becoming limited,” Muhyiddin said in a statement on Friday. Officials believe more infectious variants have contributed to the surge, as well as gatherings in the Muslim-majority country during the holy month of Ramadan and the Eid al-Fitr holiday earlier this month. Muhyiddin said the stricter lockdown from June 1 to 14 was for all social and economic areas, and that only essential services and economic sectors would remain in operation, which would be listed by the national security council. Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has announced a nationwide “total lockdown” starting in June as coronavirus infections in the country surged to record levels.