KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia reported over 6,000 daily Covid-19 cases for two consecutive days with 6,630 new infections reported today.
Yesterday, Malaysia reported 6,210 cases after three consecutive days of being in the 5,000-case range.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this raised the country's overall tally to 2,420,222.
"Of the new cases today, 6,615 (6,330 Malaysians and 285 foreigners) were local infections while the remaining 15 cases were imported (11 Malaysians and four foreigners)," he said in a statement today.
He said out of the cases reported, only 101 cases or 1.5 per cent were in Categories 3, 4 and 5.
The remaining 6,529 (98.5 per cent) were asymptomatic or mild symptoms under Categories 1 and 2.
He said to date, 653 patients were being treated in the intensive care units, including 322 who are on ventilator support.
Dr Noor Hisham also said as of Oct 21, the national infectivity rate (Rt) stood at 0.86.
Kuala Lumpur had the highest Rt at 1.03, followed by Negri Sembilan at 1.0.
In other states, Selangor and Melaka had an Rt of 0.94 each, Putrajaya (0.93), Sabah (0.90), Kelantan (0.88), Johor and Terengganu (0.86), Kedah (0.85), Perak and Penang (0.82), Pahang (0.81), Sarawak (0.79), Perlis (0.75) and Labuan at zero.
Another 7,630 patients have recovered, bringing total recoveries to 2,311,213.
Dr Noor Hisham said 12 new Covid-19 clusters were also identified today.
These, he said, include six workplace clusters (two each detected in Johor and Selangor and one each in Melaka and Kuala Lumpur), three education (others) clusters (one each detected in Johor, Selangor and Kuala Lumpur), two community clusters (one each in Sabah and Pahang) and one religious activity cluster detected in Perak.
He said there are currently 580 active clusters nationwide of the total 5,717 clusters recorded to date.
