Daily Covid-19 cases surge to above 7,000

PETALING JAYA: New Covid-19 cases have increased by over 1,500 with 7,234 infections reported yesterday.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the cumulative number of infections in the country was now 2,895,014.

He said of the new cases, 73 were in Categories 3, 4 and 5, while the rest were Categories 1 and 2 infections.

He added that 234 were imported cases involving 92 Malaysians and 142 foreigners.

“There are 118 patients being treated at intensive care units with 57 requiring ventilator support.

“Twenty-one new clusters were reported, bringing the number of active clusters to 346,” he said in his daily update yesterday.

Dr Noor Hisham said there were 5,254 recoveries recorded, bringing the cumulative total to 2,799,608.

On the country’s infectivity rate, he said the national R-nought rate stood at 1.11.

“All states except for Labuan recorded a value of over 1 with Perlis topping the charts at 1.25 followed by Johor (1.2), and Penang (1.17).“Kelantan, Terengganu and Sarawak recorded a value of 1.04 while Labuan recorded a zero infectivity rate,” he said.