KUALA LUMPUR: The country's Covid-19 cases rose to 5,244 in the past 24-hours, after two days of logging infections below 5,000.
On Monday and Tuesday, the number of infections detected by the Health Ministry stood at 4,611 and 4,743 respectively.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Selangor remained the state with the highest number of daily new cases at 2,001 followed by Negri Sembilan at 677, Sarawak (577) and Kuala Lumpur (531).
Other states and federal territories which recorded three-digit new cases are Johor at 282, Pahang (245), Kedah (189), Melaka (180), Penang (159) and Sabah (129).
Dr Noor Hisham said 5,237 local infections involved 4,291 Malaysians and 946 foreigners.
He added that there were seven import cases involving four Malaysians and three foreigners.
"There were 83 deaths today taking the nation's total fatalities to 4,637. These involved 77 Malaysians and six foreigners.
"There were 35 deaths in Selangor; nine in Kuala Lumpur; eight in Johor; seven each in Sabah and Negri Sembilan; six in Kelantan; three each in Sarawak and Labuan; two in Perak; and, one each in Kedah, Melaka and Perlis.
"The oldest fatality was a 93-year-old female who died at Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang, Selangor. The youngest was a male aged 26 who died at the same hospital. He had a history of high blood pressure and dyslipidaemia," said Dr Noor Hisham today.
He said 24 new Covid-19 clusters involving workplaces (15), community (seven), high risk group (one) and a detention centre (one) were identified in Selangor, Penang, Melaka, Kuala Lumpur, Johor, Pahang, Sarawak, Terengganu and Negri Sembilan.
The new clusters, said Dr Noor Hisham, brings the total to 2,690, of which 851 are active.
The workplace cluster with the highest number of infections is named Jalan Enam Selatan Dua in the Sepang, Kuala Lumpur, Petaling, Klang, Hulu Selangor and Hulu Langat districts in Selangor.
A total of 92 workers from a service company located in Jalan KLIA S6, in Sepang were found to be positive for the virus out of 330 people tested.
The community cluster with the most infections is Nanga Tada in Kanowit, Sarawak where 107 people had contracted the virus after attending a festival celebration.
The high-risk group, Jalan Sepang cluster saw 18 staff as well as patients of a dialysis centre in Sepang, Selangor confirmed to have been infected.
The detention centre cluster named Tembok Jelebu in Jelebu, Negri Sembilan emerged after 44 staff and detainees were found to have caught the virus out of 557 people screened.
The cluster's index case is a 34-year-old man who was confirmed positive on June 15, four days after he started showing symptoms.