Figures remain below the 15,000 mark


PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia’s Covid-19 figures remained below the 15,000 mark for the eighth day straight with 12,434 new infections.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the country’s cumulative total of cases were now 2,232,960.

“Of the 12,434 new cases, 98% of them are either mild or asymptomatic cases.

“Another 207 cases (1.7%) are Category Three, Four and Five cases,” he said in his daily Covid-16 statement.

Five states reported four-digit case increases - Sarawak with 2,967 cases, Selangor (1,362), Johor (1,289), Kelantan (1,125) and Sabah (1,000).

Kuala Lumpur continued reporting low numbers of cases with 284 new infections reported yesterday.

Dr Noor Hisham said 17,000 patients were discharged, making it the 13th consecutive day where recoveries outnumbered new cases.

“The country’s cumulative Covid-19 recoveries are now at 2,037,099.

“This is a recovery rate of 91.2%,” he said, adding that there were 979 patients in the intensive care units of which 871 were confirmed Covid-19 cases while the others were suspected.

He said 565 patients are on ventilator support.

Dr Noor Hisham added that as of Tuesday, Malaysia’s infectivity rate was at an Rt level of 0.88.

He said only Putrajaya (Rt 1.01) and Terengganu (Rt 1.00) had Rt levels above 1.0.

The Health Ministry had also identified 15 new clusters nationwide bringing the total of active ones to 1,124.

Meanwhile, the Health Ministry’s CovidNow website reported that the country’s Covid-19 death cases statistic was still on a decreasing trend.

The average number of deaths in the last seven days – based on the actual date of death – is 89.

This is a decline from early August, when the average was around 300 death cases a day.

The country’s active Covid-19 cases have gone down to below 175,000, of which 83% are people with mild or asymptomatic infections and who are undergoing home quarantine.

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