KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2 — The Ministry of Health (MoH) has logged 5,806 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.

The latest number represented an increase of 367 cases from the new infections recorded yesterday.

It also brought the total of Covid-19 cases in the country, since the start of the pandemic, to 2,644,027.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah also disclosed that only 103 or 1.8 per cent of cases reported today were in Categories 3, 4 and 5 that required hospitalisation.

"There are currently 511 patients being treated in intensive care units (ICU), of which 143 are suspected, probable or under investigation for Covid-19.

"Out of these 511,266 need ventilators to help them breathe, including 145 who are confirmed as Covid-19 positive,” he said.

He added that six new clusters were also detected over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of active clusters in the country to 227.

He said that Malaysia’s rate of infection currently stands at 0.95, with Perlis being the state with the highest infectivity rate, at 1.09.