After yesterday's drop, Malaysia's daily Covid-19 instances are still below 5,000

After recording 4,774 infections in the previous 24 hours, Malaysia's new daily Covid-19 cases stayed below the 5,000 level.

This was also a drop from yesterday's 4,915 instances, which brought the country's three-day trend of above 5,000 cases in daily Covid-19 to a stop.

It also puts the overall number of Covid-19 cases in the country to 2,870,758 since the outbreak began.

Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, the Director-General of Health, also revealed that just 36, or 0.8 percent, of the cases reported today were in hospitalisation categories 3, 4, and 5.

"At this time, 114 patients are being treated in intensive care units, with eight of them being suspected, probable, or under investigation for Covid-19."

"Of these 114, 62 require ventilators to assist them in breathing, including 50 who have been verified as Covid-19 positive," he explained.

In the last 24 hours, 14 additional clusters have been discovered, increasing the total number of active clusters in the country to 314.

According to him, Malaysia's infection rate is currently at 1.14, with Perlis having the highest infectivity rate at 1.25.

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