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PUTRAJAYA: For the second day in a row, the number of recoveries from Covid-19 has outnumbered new infections in the country.
Tan Sri Health Director General Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said 2,112 patients were discharged yesterday.
This is significantly higher than the 1,212 new Covid-19 cases reported.
In total, 54,759 patients have recovered from the disease, which translates into 83.4% of the number of confirmed cases in the country.
The 2,112 recoveries were close to the daily record of discharged patients, which is 2,555 seen on November 26.
The number of active cases has been reduced to 10,578.
Dr Noor Hisham said that overall, the number of Malaysian cases had reached 65,697.
Selangor recorded the highest number of new cases with 402 infections, followed by Sabah with 326, Negri Sembilan (141) and Kuala Lumpur (119).
“Of the 402 cases in Selangor, 308 or 76% of them are linked to clusters, as well as contract tracing activities that are being carried out aggressively,” Dr. Noor Hisham said at the Covid- press conference. 19 of the ministry.
He also said that 101 or 8.3% of the country’s cases yesterday were from groups linked to prisons and detention centers.
The ministry has classified three new clusters, bringing the number of active clusters to 181 now.
Dr. Noor Hisham said that Jalan Lapan’s group in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur had 25 confirmed cases, while Batu Sembilan’s group in Selangor had 19 linked cases.
The Nibong group, detected in Johor, recorded 10 confirmed cases.
As for the Teratai group in Klang, which is linked to workers at rubber glove maker Top Glove, it saw another 18 new cases.
It remains the largest group in the country with 4,278 confirmed cases.
Meanwhile, Dr. Noor Hisham said the government was expected to receive the clinical reports of the third phase of testing of a possible Covid-19 vaccine next week.
“We are waiting for it and once it is proven effective with minimal side effects, it can be registered with authorities such as the US Food and Drug Administration and the Malaysian National Drug Regulatory Agency,” he said.
He said the government was in negotiations with 10 companies, including Pfizer and its partner BioNTech, for the possible Covid-19 vaccine, but did not reveal which pharmaceutical company would submit its clinical report to the government next week.
The government, he said, had taken proactive steps to procure vaccines early so as not to get caught in a bind, as it did when the country was experiencing a second wave of infections and needed crucial equipment such as ventilators and personal protective equipment (PPE). .
“At least now there is an agreement that allows us to reserve vaccines in advance,” he said.
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