New Covid-19 cases in Malaysia remained at four digits today with 1,600 infections, bringing the cumulative figure of positive cases to 74,294, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said the latest cases raised the number of active cases to 11,604, while 1,033 recoveries were reported today, bringing the number of recovered cases so far to 62,306.
Dr Noor Hisham said 1,597 of the new cases were local transmissions and the rest imported cases.
“Negeri Sembilan reported the highest daily figure at 541 cases (33.8 percent), followed by Selangor with 426 cases (26.6 percent) and Sabah 248 cases (15.5 percent).
“The spike in Negeri Sembilan was due to the surge in cases in the Bakti Cluster at 500 cases (92.4 percent) of the total in the state, with the cases being isolated in a prison area,” he said in a statement on Covid-19 today.
Dr Noor Hisham said there are currently 129 individuals in the intensive care unit with 57 of them requiring ventilator support.
He also reported two new deaths today, bringing the total number to 384.
A 76-year-old female with a history of high blood pressure and anaemia passed away at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Sabah, while a 59-year-old male with a history of diabetes and high blood pressure passed away at Hospital Semporna in Sabah.
Meanwhile, two more new Covid-19 clusters were detected in the country today involving areas in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur.
The Kuala Selangor cluster is being dubbed the Malawati cluster while the Kuala Lumpur cluster is called the Awan Lembah construction site cluster.