KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 caseload continues to be on a downtrend with 20,923 cases and just more than half of it – 10,790 – are logged in Selangor as of midnight, according to CovidNow data.
This brings the cumulative cases to 4,122,004 and the death toll to 34,751. Of the 34 reported deaths, eight are classified as brought-in-dead.
Aside from Selangor, Kuala Lumpur has the most fresh infections with 1,855 and followed by Negri Sembilan (1,304), Perak (1,185) and Penang (1,145).
Other states that logged less than 1,000 cases are Sarawak (960), Kedah (785), Johor (726), Pahang (634), Melaka (488), Sabah (269), Kelantan (298), Terengganu (245), Perlis (97), Putrajaya (95) and Labuan (47).
Majority of the new cases – 13,006 – are in Category 2, followed by 7,802 in category 1, Category 5 (45), Category 3 (44) and Category 4 (26).
Meanwhile, another three clusters were recorded – two education ones and a high-risk group.
Melaka’s Bandar Vendor education cluster in Alor Gajah has 57 cases and a positivity rate of 89.1% while Selangor’s Dua Sg Raba education cluster in Kuala Langat logged 26 cases and a positivity rate of 65%.
Selangor also has a high-risk group cluster known as Jalan SS Tiga cluster in the Petaling district. It currently has five cases with a positivity rate of 50%.
The country has a total of 242,487 active cases, of which 235,596 (97.2%) are in home quarantine, 5,430 (2.2%) hospitalised and 1,159 (0.5%) in low-risk treatment and quarantine centres.
Some 198 patients need ventilator aid while 104 cases are under intensive care, and another 25,467 recoveries are recorded.
According to the Health Ministry data, five states have exceeded the 50% ICU bed usage – Kuala Lumpur (70%), Putrajaya (67%), Johor (59%), Penang (57%) and Selangor (53%). – The Vibes, March 27, 2022
