KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12 — The Ministry of Health (MoH) logged 6,517 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.
The latest numbers represented an increase of 194 cases compared to the new infections recorded yesterday.
This makes it the third day in a row that daily cases have numbered more than 6,000.
This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country, since the start of the pandemic, to 2,535,338.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah also disclosed that only 125 or 1.9 per cent of cases reported today were in Categories 3, 4 and 5 that required hospitalisation, while the remaining 98.1 per cent were in Categories 1 and 2.
“There are currently 544 patients being treated in intensive care units (ICU), of which 59 are suspected, probable or under investigation for Covid-19.
“Out of these 544, 269 need ventilators to help them breathe, including 194 who are confirmed to be positive for Covid-19,” he said.
He added that nine new clusters were also detected over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of active clusters in the country to 266.
“He said that Malaysia’s rate of infection currently stands at 1.00, with Putrajaya being the state with the highest infectivity rate, at 1.16.
Labuan was the only state or federal territory in Malaysia to have a zero infectivity rate.
