Klang Valley records a quarter of new Covid-19 cases nationwide



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COVID-19 | The Ministry of Health reported 589 new cases of Covid-19 at noon today, of which 27.2 percent were from Selangor, Kuala Lumpur Y Putrajaya alone.

Main indicators in brief:

  • Active Cases = 5,945 ↑ (10th consecutive day a new record set)
  • Patients in intensive care = 103 ↓
  • Intubated patients = 31 ↓
  • Deaths = 3 ↓

Sabah continued to report the highest number of new cases (304) followed by Selangor (150 new cases) and Perak (50 new cases).

Today there were three new deaths attributed to Covid-19, all in Sabah. The details are as follows:

– Malay woman, 54 years old, died in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu. You have a history of other diseases.

– 68-year-old foreign male, who died in Tawau Hospital. You have a history of other illnesses.

– Foreign woman, 100 years old, passed away at Duchess of Kent Hospital, Sandakan. No details were provided.

Malaysia has reported deaths from Covid-19 for eight days in a row, all in Sabah and 29 deaths in total.

As of noon yesterday, Sabah had 3,242 active Covid-19 cases or 56.2 percent of all active cases in the country. The state health department has yet to release the latest active case numbers from Sabah at the time of writing.

In the Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya territories of the Klang Valley, there were 160 new cases, up from 75 yesterday.

The increase in new cases in Selangor was linked to the existing Utama group, which contributed 105 new cases.

Of the 589 new cases in the country today, only three were not transmitted locally. The locally transmitted cases involved 453 citizens and 133 foreigners.

The Ministry of Health also reported that today they have classified four new clusters.

A breakdown of the source of new cases is as follows:

Sabah (304 new cases)

– Close contact detection – 165 cases

– Other types of screening – 101 cases

– Existing clusters – 25 cases

– Olive cluster – 13 cases

Selangor (150 new cases)

– Existing clusters – 125 cases

– Follow-up of close contacts – 13 cases

– Symptomatic screening – 9 cases

– Other types of screening – 3 cases

Perak (52 new cases)

– Existing clusters – 50 cases

– Bah Pengkalan cluster – 2 cases

Kedah (31 new cases)

– Tembok cluster (existing) – 28 cases

– Symptomatic screening – 3 cases

Penang (16 new cases)

– Existing clusters – 15 cases

– Symptomatic screening – 1 case

Negeri Sembilan (11 new cases)

– Close contact detection – 9 cases

– Bah Kasturi cluster (existing) – 1 case

– Returned from Sabah – 1 case

Kuala Lumpur (9 new cases)

– Existing cluster – 4 cases

– Returned from Sabah – 2 cases

– Other types of screening – 2 cases

– Close contact screening – 1 case

Labuan (6 new cases)

– Returned from Sabah – 3 cases

– Saguking cluster – 2 cases

– Package cluster (existing) – 1 box

Sarawak (2 new cases)

– Returned from Sabah – 1 case

– Close contact screening – 1 case

Malacca (2 new cases)

– Close contact screening – 1 case

– Symptomatic screening – 1 case

Kelantan (2 new cases)

– Other types of screening – 2 cases

Putrajaya (1 new case)

– Bah Pasir cluster – 1 box

The four new groups involved recent trips to Sabah.

The index case for the olive cluster was identified in Selangor and the detection of close contact resulted in the detection of 16 cases of Covid-19.

This group is distributed by Hulu Langat Selangor district, as well as the Marudu City Y Cross section districts of Sabah.

The new Bah Pasir cluster involved people in the Port Dickson Negeri Sembilan district, as well as the Putrajaya district. So far, a total of five cases are involved in this group.

The new Bah Pengkalan group was identified from two index patients in Hulu Perak. A total of six cases are attributed to this group.

In Labuan, Suguking’s new group involved five cases.


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