Covid-19: 3,519 new cases bring total to 2,728,203

PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry reported 3,519 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday (Dec 22).

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah tweeted that this brought the cumulative infections in the country to 2,728,203.

The number of new cases according to state will be shared by the Health Ministry on its CovidNow portal.

Dr Noor Hisham also said out of the 3,519 new cases, 100 were imported while the remaining 3,419 were local infections.

A total of 65 cases or 1.8% were classified as patients in Categories Three, Four and Five while the remaining 3,454 cases or 98.2% were in Categories One and Two.

A total of 331 cases were admitted into the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) while 187 patients required ventilatory assistance.

Meanwhile, the number of recoveries, which stood at 5,118 cases, outpaced the number of infections.

A total of 2,647,587, or 97% of cumulative recoveries have been recorded since the pandemic began.

Dr Noor Hisham also said there were two new clusters, bringing the total number of active clusters presently to 234, while the cumulative number of clusters since the pandemic began stood at 6,088.