Noor Hisham: 71 Covid-19 fatalities in 9 days after less than 100 in first 9 months

In a moving post on social media, Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has lamented the rapid increase in the rate of Covid-19 fatalities since the turn of the year.

"For the first 9 months of 2020, the total number of deaths was less than 100 cases...