KUALA LUMPUR – New Covid-19 cases rose to 5,439 today compared with 4,879 yesterday, bringing the cumulative total cases for the pandemic in the country to 2,638,221 as at noon today.
Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said from the total new cases, 5,418 were domestic transmissions involving 5,229 locals, while 21 were imported cases involving 15 Malaysians.
“Out of the 5,439 daily cases reported today, 105 cases were in categories three, four, and five, and 5,334 cases were in categories one and two,” he said in a statement on the development of Covid-19 here today.
Categories one and two refer to Covid-19 patients who are not symptomatic or have mild symptoms while categories three, four, and five are patients with lung infections, requiring oxygen and ventilator assistance.
Dr Noor Hisham said there were 6,803 recovery cases, taking the overall recoveries to 2,544,007.
Apart from that, Dr Noor Hisham said 400 Covid-19 cases were treated at intensive care units, with 161 of them requiring respiratory assistance.
Another six new clusters were detected today with 226 clusters still active nationwide.
He said the Rt value (rate of infectivity) in Malaysia has maintained at 0.95 as reported on November 29.
Detailed information on the current infection situation and spread of Covid-19 in Malaysia will be uploaded on the CovidNow website at https://covidnow.moh.gov.my, and the data is updated at midnight daily. – Bernama, December 1, 2021
