KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry logged 1,075 new Covid-19 cases today, with the Klang Valley registering the highest number.
This brings the daily cases back into four digits after yesterday's 851.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this raised Malaysia's cumulative tally of infections to 69,095, including 10,802 active cases.
Of the new cases, he said only three were imported.
"The Klang Valley recorded the bulk of the cases (508 or 47.3 per cent of the total new cases), where 459 (90.4 per cent) of them were reported in Selangor.
"This is followed by Sabah with 310 new cases (28.8 per cent) and Johor (78 or 7.3 per cent)," he said in a statement today.
Meanwhile, he said 948 more Covid-19 patients have recovered and were discharged from hospitals increasing the number of recoveries to 57,917.
He said 116 patients were being treated at intensive care units, with 46 requiring ventilator support.
Dr Noor Hisham added that the total death toll from the virus has risen to 376 with 11 more deaths reported to the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) as of noon today.
"Three deaths were reported in Selangor, two in Sabah, two in Johor, one each in Negri Sembilan, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, and Kelantan."