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COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 1,924 new Covid-19 cases as of noon today, which is the lowest since January 4, when 1,741 cases were recorded.
Six of the new cases are imported from abroad, while the rest are cases of local transmission. Most of the local cases (80.4 percent) involve Malaysian citizens.
The number of active cases has also fallen to its lowest level in more than a month, although there is an increase in cases requiring intensive care or intubation.
“This is a very positive development and the current Covid-19 situation is expected to improve,” said Health Ministry Director General Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, noting that Covid-19 cases have been steadily declining since that the emergency proclamation was made last January. eleven.
This comes after a large increase in new cases was detected yesterday, driven in large part by a single group involving a factory in Sungai Gadut, Negeri Sembilan, which recorded 1,338 new cases in a single day.
For today, most cases are still concentrated in the Klang Valley (886 cases; 46.0 percent), particularly Selangor (666 cases; 34.6 percent) and Kuala Lumpur (218 cases; 11.3 percent).
Other states and territories that reported triple-digit numbers today are Johor (257), Sarawak (219), Penang (162) and Perak (120).
Cases linked to prisons and detention centers represent 105 (5.5%) of the current figures, in particular the Tembok Tapah group (41), the Damai Pelangi group (32) and the Tembok Pengkalan Chepa group (15).
The total number of cases since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak in the country now stands at 293,698.
Active cases: 28,837
ICU patients: 205
Intubated: 91
Deceased
Today twelve deaths have been attributed to Covid-19, bringing the national death toll to 1,100.
Nine of the deaths involve Covid-19 cases in Selangor, followed by two in Sarawak and one in Penang. They are all Malaysian citizens.
Their ages ranged from 52 to 91 years old.
Two of them, a 63-year-old man with high blood pressure and a 77-year-old man with diabetes and high blood pressure, had already died when they were taken to the hospital. The first was a Selangor case, while the other was in Penang.
Cases by state
Selangor (666)
Existing clusters: 144
New clusters (Industri 19, Industri Jalan Empat, SS Lapan): 43
Close contacts: 340
Imported: 2
Other screenings: 137
Johor (257)
Existing clusters: 107
Close Contacts: 90
Other screenings: 60
Sarawak (219)
Existing clusters: 52
New Groups (Jalan Ho Pin): 2
Close Contacts: 59
Imported: 1
Other screenings: 105
Kuala Lumpur (218)
Existing clusters: 52
New Groups (Jalan Putra Cross): 1
Close Contacts: 98
Imported: 3
Other screenings: 64
Penang (162)
Existing clusters: 40
New Groups (Lorong Murni): 19
Close Contacts: 38
Other screenings: 65
Silver (120)
Existing clusters: 96
New clusters: 2
Close Contacts: 8
Other screenings: 14
Sabah (93)
Existing clusters: 34
Close Contacts: 42
Other screenings: 17
Negeri Sembilan (62 years old)
Existing clusters: 14
Close Contacts: 38
Other screenings: 10
Kelantan (44)
Existing clusters: 15
Close Contacts: 18
Other screenings: 11
Kedah (29)
Existing clusters: 9
Close Contacts: 6
Other screenings: 14
Malacca (22)
Existing clusters: 5
Close Contacts: 17
Pahang (19)
Existing clusters: 3
New clusters: 7
Close Contacts: 1
Other screenings: 8
Terengganu (6)
Existing clusters: 5
Other projections: 1
Labuan (4)
Close Contacts: 1
Other projections: 3
Putrajaya (2)
Close Contacts: 1
Other projections: 1
Perlis (1)
Other projections: 1
Clusters
The Health Ministry is tracking 499 active groups, including eight new groups that have been identified today.
Of the new conglomerates, one is linked to a social event, another to a care center for the elderly, and another to community transmission.
The remaining five new clusters are classified as workplace clusters, mostly factories and construction sites where government-mandated screenings are conducted.
New cases have been reported in 93 groups, although none reported more than 100 cases today.
The highest increase is observed in the Perindustrian Pelepas cluster (55 cases) in Tanjung Pelepas, Johor; followed by the Tanjung Suria group (47 cases) which originated in two factories in Selangor; and the Tembok Tapah cluster (41 cases) in the Tapah Prison, Perak.
On the other hand, 18 clusters are considered to have terminated after no new cases have been reported for 28 consecutive days.
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