KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 — New Covid-19 case numbers in Malaysia increased slightly today with 1,360 new infections reported over the last day, almost 100 more cases than was reported yesterday.
A tweet by Health Ministry director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah showed Selangor topping the list again with 356 new infections, followed by Sarawak with 308 new cases, and Johor with 129.
Penang reported 113 new infections, with 98 new cases reported in Kuala Lumpur, and Perak with 71 cases, making up the top six states today.
This brings the cumulative number of local Covid-19 infections to 338,168 cases to date.
Dr Noor Hisham reported two more Covid-19 related deaths today, both involving patients in Sarawak: a 72-year-old woman and an 89-year-old man, both suffering from more than one comorbidity such as hypertension and diabetes.
The death toll now stands at 1,248, with a fatality rate of 0.37 per cent.
He also revealed 1,491 more patients were cured and discharged, bringing the recovery rate to 95.3 per cent with 322,416 patients cured to date.
This translates to 14,504 active cases still undergoing treatment.
Dr Noor Hisham said a total of 157 of those patients are currently warded in Intensive Care Units nationwide, with 72 of them requiring breathing assistance.
A total of eight new Covid-19 clusters were also detected, seven from workplaces and one from the community.
The workplace clusters were detected in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Kelantan, Kedah, Labuan, Putrajaya, with one workplace and one cluster from the community detected in Sabah.
Three of the new clusters involved educational institutions, namely the Paloh Rambai cluster in Kelantan, Persiaran Maktab cluster in Selangor, and the Merinding cluster in Labuan.
Others detected in the workplace include the Bandar Sri cluster in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, with 12 positive cases detected among employees of a service company, and the Perusahan LPK cluster with 41 positive cases comprising factory workers in Sungai Petani, Kedah.
Another workplace cluster emerged in Putrajaya, the Putra Satu cluster, where nine positive cases were detected among the staff of a public administration office in Presint 1.
The two remaining clusters in Sabah were the Tenegang cluster with 20 positive cases detected among factory workers in Kinabatangan, and the Siasai Tamu cluster which was triggered by a social event in Kota Belud held on March 14, with 11 positive cases so far.
