Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah
(pic) said this is the most number of new clusters to be recorded in a single day.
Eight of the new clusters are outbreaks found at workplaces.
This includes the Jalan Tanjung Kupang cluster in Johor, which has 199 confirmed cases.
The outbreak was discovered from a targeted screening exercise conducted on 953 workers of a construction site in Gelang Patah, Johor.
The Jalan 223 PJ cluster is a workplace outbreak discovered among workers of a service company located at Seksyen 51A in Petaling Jaya.
A targeted screening exercise was conducted on 71 individuals, and 16 cases have been confirmed so far.