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KUALA LUMPUR, April 9 With 348 Covid-19 clusters still active and reporting new cases, Malaysia continues to grapple with four-digit new infections every day.
It is obvious from the Ministry of Health’s daily Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation Report that the two main types of clusters triggering new cases are those linked to the workplace and community.
The hotbeds for the transmission of the deadly coronavirus are, in fact, workplaces such as factories, construction sites, construction companies, business centres, education centres and public administrative centres.
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PETALING JAYA: Selangor recorded 464 new Covid-19 cases, marking only the second time the figure has dipped below 500 this year.The only other time it recorded fewer than 500 cases was on March 1 with 453 cases.
On the latest cases in the state, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 368 were from clusters and active close contact screening.
The country recorded a total of 1,280 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, which was the fourth straight day of daily cases dropping below 2,000.
Of the new cases, 1,278 cases were locally transmitted while the remaining two were imported cases.
Dr Noor Hisham said five cases were from prison clusters, namely the Tembok Pengkalan Chepa cluster (two cases), the Jalan Harapan Prison cluster (two cases) and the Jalan Awang cluster (one case).
PETALING JAYA: The country recorded 1,529 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, the lowest since the beginning of the year, says the Health Ministry.
Its director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the total number of active cases was also below 20,000 for the first time in 2021, at 19,778 cases.
Of the new cases, 1,520 were locally transmitted while nine were imported cases. Eight fatalities were recorded, bringing the death toll to 1,177 cases.
Selangor continued to record the most number of cases in the country at 726, he added.
“Of this total, 645 cases were from clusters and from the active Covid-19 close contact screening that is being conducted in the field.