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Malaysia’s Daily Covid Cases May Dip Below 1,000 in Last Quarter

Residents wait to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccination clinic set up at Kampung Bukit Perah in Kuala Langat, Selangor, Malaysia.Photographer: Samsul Said/Bloomberg

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By Yantoultra Ngui and Anuradha Raghu

July 15, 2021 at 7:40 AM UTC

Updated on

July 15, 2021 at 12:07 PM UTC

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Malaysia’s new Covid-19 cases are expected to fall below 1,000 a day in October and November if the Southeast Asian nation is able to sustain its current vaccination pace, Health Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said.

Daily infections climbed to a record for a third day on Thursday, surpassing 13,000 for the first time. Selangor continued to account for the majority of the cases, as more than 50,000 people in the nation’s most industrialized state were tested, Noor Hisham said.