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KUALA LUMPUR: After three days in a row of registering more than 5,000 new Covid-19 cases, the country’s daily count saw a drop after 4,214 new cases were reported overnight.
Tan Sri Health Director General Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, the numbers were also lower than the 4,280 reported recovery cases, bringing the recovery count to 170,329 cases or 77.7 percent of the total number of cases.
He said the country’s infection count now stands at 219,173 cases, with 48,074 of them active.
“Of the new cases, nine were imported and 4,205 were local broadcasts,” he said today in a statement on the developments of Covid-19.
Dr Noor Hisham said that Selangor remains the state with the highest number of daily new cases with 1,362 infections, followed by Johor (1,068) and Kuala Lumpur (702).
It is followed by Sabah (276 cases); Perak (193); Penang (119); Sarawak (105); Negeri Sembilan (91); Malacca (85); Kelantan (57); Pahang (54); Kedah (47); Terengganu (38); Putrajaya (10) and Labuan with seven cases.
Dr Noor Hisham said 316 patients were being treated in the intensive care unit, 137 of them intubated.
In addition, 10 deaths were recorded today, bringing the country’s death toll to 770.
The deaths involved seven male and three female patients, all Malays between the ages of 26 and 87, and eight of them suffered from underlying illnesses.
Dr Noor Hisham said 14 new clusters were reported today, and the country now has 401 active clusters, 73 of which saw an increase in cases.
Of these new groups, nine involve workplaces, namely Tapak Bina Jalan Lagoon and Industri Puchong in Selangor; Persiaran Raya and Lapangan Siber (Perak); Kampung Parit Masjid (Johor); Jalan Puchong Construction Site (Kuala Lumpur); Ladang Sungai Pin (Sabah); Bintang Daily (Sarawak) and Nilam Tiga in Negeri Sembilan.
Three other groups identified as high risk were Jalan Empat and Jalan Tan in Kuala Lumpur, and Sungai Purun in Selangor, while the two community groups identified were Kampung Samin and Padas Damit in Sabah.
“The groups with the highest increase in cases today were Tapak Bina Jalan Puchong (322 cases), Tapak Bina Jalan Chulan (85) and Tembok Taiping (81),” said Dr. Noor Hisham.
So far, 430 groups have been completed, including five today, namely Tembok, GK Tawau, Sentosa Residensi, Menara Wang and Maringkan, it added. – Called
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