4TH STRAIGHT DAY OF CASES EXCEEDING 20,000
Selangor continues to record the most cases
ATOTAL of 22,262 Covid19 infections were recorded yesterday, with Selangor continuing to log the highest number of cases in the country.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this raised the cumulative cases to 1,535,286, with 260,880 active cases.
This is the fourth consecutive day Malaysia had registered more than 20,000 cases and yesterday’s cases were a slight drop from the record 23,564 cases reported on Friday.
Dr Noor Hisham said Selangor recorded the bulk of cases at 7,011, followed by 2,651 in Sabah, 1,964 in Sarawak and 1,880 in Kedah.
“Johor logged 1,558 cases, Penang had 1,459 cases, while Kuala Lumpur reported 1,220 cases and Kelantan recorded 1,039 cases.
“States that logged three-digit cases are Perak (946), Melaka (882), Pahang (664), Terengganu (495) and Negri Sembilan (405).
“Putrajaya and Perlis logged 41 and 38 cases, respectively, while Labuan recorded nine infections.”
He said the majority of cases reported were from Categories 1 and 2, and patients who showed no or mild symptoms.
“A total of 469 cases (2.1 per cent) were from Categories 3, 4 and 5, while another 21,793 cases (97.9 per cent) were from Categories 1 and 2.
“This is based on the clinical condition of the new cases. Some of the cases remained in the same category throughout the infection period.
“However, the condition of some patients would improve or decline.”
He said 18,374 cases (85.13 per cent) of the new cases had no Covid-19 vaccination or had yet to complete their doses.
He said 223 deaths were reported yesterday, involving 199 Malaysians and 24 foreigners.
This, he said, raised the death toll to 13,936, or 0.91 per cent, of the total number of cases.
The fatalities included 35 brought-in-dead cases (28 Malaysians and seven foreigners), with Selangor recording 77 cases.
He said 1,035 patients were in intensive care units, with 513 people intubated.
He said there were 18,576 patients who had recovered yesterday, increasing the number of recoveries to 1,260,470, or 82.1 per cent.
He said Malaysia’s R-naught (Rt) value stood at 1.04, with Perlis recording the highest RT value at 1.38.
He added that the ministry had detected 32 new clusters.
Eighteen were workplace clusters, 13 were community clusters and one a religious cluster.
Malaysia has recorded 4,418 clusters with 1,435 active clusters and 2,983 clusters that have ended.