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Another 21,072 Covid-19 infections as of noon today

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia logged another 21,072 Covid-19 infections as of noon today.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the fresh cases recorded today, 86 (or 0.41 per cent) were in Categories 3, 4 and 5.

In Category 5, there were eight cases (0.04 per cent); Category 4 with 20 cases (0.09 per cent), and Category 3 with 58 (0.28per cent).

Category 1 recorded 5,995 cases (28.45 per cent), while Category 2 recorded 14,991 (71.14 per cent), as both categories registered 99.59 per cent of today's total case load.

The country to date has reported a total of 3,040,235 Covid-19 cases since the pandemic struck in 2020.

Dr Noor Hisham 21,007 cases today were local transmissions while the remaining 65 cases were imported.

He added that currently 187 individuals were receiving treatment at intensive care units (ICU) and 109 cases were on ventilator support.

Dr Noor Hisham said the Health Ministry had also detected the emergence of 10 new Covid-19 clusters over the past 24 hours, making it 421 active Covid-19 clusters nationwide.

Meanwhile, Dr Noor Hisham said 5,724 more individuals had recovered from their Covid-19 infection today.

At the same time, the nationwide infectivity rate stood at 1.49 as of Saturday.

Labuan recorded the highest with 2.14, followed by Sarawak (1.67), Sabah (1.66), Perlis (1.47), Penang (1.46), Johor (1.40), Pahang (1.38), Kelantan and Selangor (1.37), Terengganu and Kedah (1.35), Putrajaya (1.34), Negri Sembilan (1.31), Melaka (1.28), Perak (1.27) and Kuala Lumpur (1.22).

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