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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 — The Health Ministry recorded 21,468 new Covid-19 cases today.
After breaching the 21,000 mark yesterday, today’s statistics pushed the country’s cumulative cases to 1,363,683 since the pandemic arrived last year.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Selangor alone accounted for 7,449 new cases, followed by Kuala Lumpur (2,183) and Kedah (1,807).
Sabah was the next highest with 1,654 cases, followed by Johor (1,485), Penang (1,022), Kelantan (1,088), Negri Sembilan (974), Perak (940), Melaka (723), Sarawak (715), Pahang (572), Terengganu (440), Putrajaya (66), Perlis (50), and Labuan (six).
Dr Noor Hisham said the national infectivity rate (R0) currently stands at 1.05, based on yesterday’s caseload.
Perlis has the highest R0 value at 1.33.
Other states and Federal Territories that recorded an R0 above 1.0 are: Sabah and Kelantan (1.20), Penang and Sarawak (1.17), Perak and Kedah (1.14), Johor (1.13), Terengganu (1.12), Pahang (1.07), Negri Sembilan (1.04), Melaka (1.03), Kuala Lumpur (1.02), and Selangor (1.00).
Meanwhile, Putrajaya and Labuan recorded R0 of 0.95 and 0.64, respectively.
Dr Noor Hisham said there were 41 new Covid-19 clusters, including 22 from workplaces, nine from within the general community, eight from high-risk groups, and three from educational centers.
He added that the clusters with the highest increase in new cases today were the Industri Lingkaran Mohamed Satu cluster (212 cases), Tapak Bina Village Road cluster (119 cases) and Tapak Bina Kluang Barat cluster (97 cases). TO COME
