The country today recorded five new Covid-19 cases, three of which were imported infections.

Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the imported cases involved two Malaysians and a permanent resident who were infected abroad.

As for the two local transmissions, he said one is a restaurant worker in Kuala Lumpur and the other is a Malaysian related to an existing Covid-19 patient (Case 8,649) in Selangor.