Friday, April 28, 2006

HFMD: S'wak Registers Lowest Number Of New Cases Thursday

KUCHING, April 27 (Bernama) -- The Hand,Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) in Sarawak finally registered the lowest number of new cases since the first case was detected in February with only 28 new cases in the last 24 hours compared to 38 new cases Wednesday.
Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan said as the number of new cases continued to dwindle, there were no critically ill cases reported.
"There are 8,960 cumulative cases with the highest number of new cases from Bintulu and Miri followed by Miri respectively," he said in HFMD's daily update here Thursday adding that six new hospital admissions were reported as of 10am Thursday.
The disease had claimed nine lives, with three cases confirmed to be Enterovirus 71 (EV71) positive.

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