KUALA LUMPUR – Today’s Covid-19 deaths remain at 43, the same as yesterday, as Malaysia logged 27,179 fresh cases amid the Omicron wave.
This brings the nation’s death toll to 32,433 and the cumulative caseload to 3,273,958. Of the new deaths, 20 are classified as brought-in-dead.
Sabah took the lead in new deaths with 12 victims, followed by Johor (nine), four each in Selangor and Negri Sembilan; three each in Penang, Kedah and Kelantan; two in Melaka and Perak, and one in Kuala Lumpur.
Perlis, Pahang, Terengganu, and Sarawak did not log any new deaths.
As for new cases, Selangor again topped the list with 5,568 infections, followed by Sabah (4,406), Penang (2,601), Kedah (2,583), Johor (2,200), and Kelantan (2,043).
Meanwhile, states with cases below the 2,000-mark are Pahang (1,668), Kuala Lumpur (1,355), Negri Sembilan (1,157), Perak (1,025), Terengganu (782), Melaka (611), Sarawak (411), Perlis (299), Labuan (277) and Putrajaya (163).
According to the CovidNow website, active cases stand at 267,084 with 8,099 new ones while another 19,037 recoveries were reported as of midnight, bringing the total to 2,974,441.
Some 254,520 cases remain under home quarantine while 4,704 patients are in low-risk quarantine and treatment centres. Some 7,574 are hospitalised, of which 106 patients are in intensive care unventilated and 180 are in need of ventilators.
The data also show an exponential rise in sporadic infections compared to cluster-linked cases.
Those in the 18-59 age group had the most infections yesterday with 19,414 cases, followed by those aged 0-11 (3,724), age 60 and above (2,022) and 12-17 (1,954).
There are also nine new clusters, of which six are education, two labelled as high-risk groups and one workplace.
Sabah’s Kuala Tongod education cluster reported 68 cases with a 100% infectivity rate followed by 39 cases each in Penang’s Jalan Tiong Mas education cluster, which has an infectivity rate of 39.8%, and Melaka’s Jalan Penghulu Abas workplace cluster, which has an infectivity rate of 81.2%.
Kelantan has two education clusters – Kg Kolam with 19 cases and a 76% infectivity rate, and Lorong Bunut Susu with six cases and a 10.5% infectivity rate.
Kuala Lumpur’s Empat Jalan Yaacob Latif in Cheras is an education cluster with nine cases and an infectivity rate of 8.3% and Titiwangsa’s Jalan Mesra Keramat high-risk group cluster has nine cases with an infectivity rate of 18.8%.
Lastly, Perak’s Jalan Parit Tg Belanja education cluster logged 13 cases with an infectivity rate of 81.2% and Johor’s Jalan Air Hitam Kulai high-risk group had six cases with an infectivity rate of 23.1%. – The Vibes, February 23, 2022
