The Health Ministry today reported that new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia surged back to four digits at 1,304, with the Klang Valley recording a spike of 2.5 times at 567 positive cases compared to 224 yesterday.
Active cases in the country now stand at 11,822, with Malaysia having so far recorded a total of 45,095 Covid-19 cases.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the 1,304 new cases, 1,300 were local transmissions while the rest were imported cases.
For the local infections, Sabah continued to record the highest with 556 cases, followed by Selangor (361), Kuala Lumpur (201), Negeri Sembilan (83) and Penang (42).
“The other states involved are Sarawak, Perak and Melaka with 13 cases each, Kedah and Kelantan with five cases each, Labuan (four), Johor (three) and Putrajaya (one),” Dr Noor Hisham said at a daily press conference on Covid-19.
He also said there were 900 recoveries today, raising the total number of recoveries to 32,069.
Currently, 96 people are being treated at intensive care units, with 39 of them requiring ventilator support.
There was also one more fatality, bringing the total death toll to 304 cases.