Sarawak tops tally of new virus cases at 2,551
KUALA LUMPUR: Covid-19 infections in the country continued to surge with 2,551 new cases reported as of yesterday.
This marked the highest number of new cases so far this month, eclipsing the 2,148 cases registered only a day earlier on Thursday.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in a statement, said the highest number of new cases emerged from Sarawak, which recorded 960 new infections.
This, he said, was followed by Selangor with 590 new cases. Selangor had notched 122,407 infections so far.
The rest were Kuala Lumpur (245), Kelantan (164), Sabah (143), Johor (121), Penang (91), Negri Sembilan (53), Perak (49), Pahang (47), Kedah (35), Melaka (28), Terengganu (16), Putrajaya (6), Perlis (2) and Labuan (1).
Dr Noor Hisham said the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country currently stood at 370,528.
Two more fatalities were reported yesterday, bringing the death toll to 1,365 since the pandemic hit the country last year.
Both victims were Malaysians from Selangor. He said there were currently 18,600 active cases, of which 227 patients were in intensive care, with 91 requiring breathing assistance.
A total of 1,524 people recovered from the virus yesterday, bringing the overall recovery tally to 350,563 people.
Dr Noor Hisham announced the emergence of seven new Covid-19 clusters yesterday.
Of the seven, three were related to workplaces, two involved detention centres, while a community cluster and a educational institution cluster made up the rest. Sarawak, he said, contributed two clusters, with one workplace cluster in Jalan Sultan Iskandar, Bintulu, and a community cluster in Jepak, also in Bintulu. The other two workplace clusters were in Jalan Balakong, Selangor, and Jalan Kia Peng, Kuala Lumpur.
He said the two detention centre clusters involved detention centres in Sandakan, Sabah, and Lenggeng, Negri Sembilan.
The educational institution cluster was in Sri Layang, Pahang, which contributed 15 new Covid-19 cases yesterday.
“Currently, there are 346 active clusters. A total of 1,161 clusters have ended, including seven clusters that ended today.
“The seven clusters that ended today are the Jalan Daun, Jalan Besar Kepong, Sungai Puteh, Jalan Kebun Nenas, Industri TTJ, Persiaran Hemisfera and Lorong Usaha Utama clusters.
“The clusters with the most number of new cases today were the Puncak Borneo cluster with 350 cases, Jalan Bambangan cluster (99) and Sandakan detention centre cluster (55),” he said.