This brings total cases nationwide to 5,532.
In his daily briefing, however, health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 103 recoveries were also recorded.
This brings the total number of patients discharged to 3,452, or 62.4% of all cases.
A total of 1,987 patients remain warded with 43 in the intensive care unit and 25 in need of respiratory assistance.
The latest death was a 72-year-old woman with cancer and a history of high blood pressure.
She died at the Sarawak General Hospital this morning, two days after she was warded.
Noor Hisham also said a new cluster had been identified in Pengerang, Johor, involving 15 cases.
This came after a Covid-19 patient, who was initially suspected of having dengue, had visited relatives around Selangor on March 17 before returning to Pengerang the following day.
The patient only tested positive for Covid-19 on March 22.
Of the 15 from the cluster, 10 were colleagues, while five were family members, including the patient’s 79-year-old mother and 10-year-old daughter. Seven remain warded, three of them in ICU.
Meanwhile, Noor Hisham revealed that the health ministry has screened 29,400 samples from the Sri Petaling tabligh cluster, which remains the biggest cluster in the country.
Of the sum, 1,978 tested positive, involving five generations of cases.
As for the tahfiz cluster, Noor Hisham said the ministry had identified 13,223 students from 200 schools. A total of 4,647 samples were taken, of which 298 or 6.4% tested positive.
There was also an increase of 11 cases at Menara City One in Kuala Lumpur, which was recently placed under the enhanced movement control order (EMCO). It is also among the 28 clusters in the country.
Noor Hisham also said that of the 28 individuals from the Selayang wholesale market in Kuala Lumpur, which was also recently placed under EMCO, eight were Malaysians. The remaining were foreigners.
“We will screen more of the people in the area and the high-risk group and are likely to identify more cases in the area.”
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