KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia registered 5,566 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours.
This marked a slight increase from the 5,271 cases yesterday and brings to an end a consecutive three-day decline in new cases.
The new cases, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said, raised the national tally to 627,652, with 82,797 active cases.
He said Selangor remains the state with the highest number of daily infections with 1,524 cases, followed by Sarawak with 707 and Negri Sembilan with 505.
Other states with three-digit infections were Kuala Lumpur with 466 cases, 456 in Johor, 350 in Sabah, 314 in Melaka, 225 in Perak, 204 in Kelantan, 191 in Labuan, 185 in Penang, 157 in Pahang, 148 in Kedah, and 106 in Terengganu.
Putrajaya recorded 27 new cases while Perlis reported only one new case.
"There were 5,562 local transmissions involving 4,895 Malaysians while the rest were foreigners. Four imported cases involved foreigners," Dr Noor Hisham said in a statement today.
He said Malaysia recorded 76 fatalities, pushing the nation's cumulative Covid-19 death toll to 3,536.
Eighteen deaths were reported in Selangor, 13 in Johor, nine in Negri Sembilan, eight in Kuala Lumpur and seven in Labuan.
Four deaths were reported in Kelantan, Melaka, and Kedah, three in Terengganu, two each in Perak and Pahang, and one each in Sabah and Sarawak."
He said the deaths involved 75 Malaysians and a foreigner, aged between 25 and 101. Five of them were brought in dead.
The oldest patient, Dr Noor Hisham said, was a woman who died at the Melaka Hospital. She had no chronic ailments.
The youngest patient, meanwhile, was a man with a history of obesity who was pronounced dead on arrival at the Sungai Buloh Hospital.
Most of the other patients who succumbed to the virus had underlying medical conditions such as heart and chronic kidney diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problem, asthma, obesity, and stroke.
Only eight of them had no chronic ailments.
Dr Noor Hisham said there are currently 903 patients being treated in intensive care units, the highest since the pandemic hit the country.
From this figure, 458 required ventilator support.
As for recoveries, 6,962 recoveries were logged today, bringing the tally to 541,319.
Meanwhile, Dr Noor Hisham said 24 new clusters were identified today comprising 15 workplace-related clusters, five community clusters, three high-risk group clusters and one religious cluster.
These clusters have so far contributed 671 new cases.
The work-related clusters were the Jalan Satu Olak Dua, Jalan Equine, Jalan Enam C, and Bukit Rahman Lapan clusters in Selangor; the Coral, Ocean Blue, and Segara clusters in Sabah; the Industri Tanjung Agas and Jalan Kesang clusters in Johor, and the Dah Mahang Merah cluster in Kedah.
"The work-related clusters were the Tapak Bina Muda 2 cluster in Kuala Lumpur; Jalan Alamanda Presint Satu cluster in Putrajaya; Jalan Seruling cluster in Penang, Jalan Kota Jelasin cluster in Kelantan and Jalan Sri Jaafar cluster in Pahang."
"The cluster with the largest number of positive cases was the Ocean Blue cluster, involving staff at a public institute in Sepanggar, with 99 people testing positive," he said.
The community clusters were the Kampung Bundu and Tanjung Aru Baru clusters in Sabah; Ulu Teru and Ulu Sebakong clusters in Sarawak, and Rantau Kenanga cluster in Perak.
Dr Noor Hisham said the high-risk group clusters were the Jalan Melang cluster in Negri Sembilan; the Teluk Kabung cluster in Johor, and the Jalan Cempedak 2 cluster in Kuala Lumpur.
The religious cluster was unearthed at Jalan Logah Segamat in Johor.