Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (
pic) said since the pandemic began, the ministry had identified a total of 1,111 clusters, of which 612 had ended.
Among the 18 inactive clusters is the Tapak Bina Bali Residence cluster in Melaka, which had 223 confirmed cases.
The cluster was related to workers of a construction site in Melaka, of whom 218 were non-Malaysians.
No deaths were reported from the cluster.
The ministry also uncovered eight new clusters, which means there are now 499 active ones in the country.
Five are workplace infections, two are community outbreaks and one involves an old folks home, the Lorong Murni cluster, which was detected in Seberang Perai Utara, Penang.
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PETALING JAYA: The health ministry has detected eight new Covid-19 clusters in the past 24 hours, health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today.
In a statement, he said five of them were workplace clusters, two were community clusters, while the remaining one involved a high-risk group,
FMT reported.
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Three of the clusters were detected in Selangor, and Kuala Lumpur, Pahang, Perak, Sarawak and Penang each had one new cluster.
The clusters that reported the most infections today were the Perindustrian Pelepas (55), Tanjung Suria (47) and Tembok Tapah (41) clusters.
25 Feb 2021 / 21:02 H.
KUALA
LUMPUR: Since the enforcement of the Emergency Ordinance on Jan 11, the number of daily new Covid-19 infections in the country dipped below 2,000 for the first time today, with 1,924 cases reported.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the new cases, 1,918 were local transmissions while six more were imported who got infected abroad, taking Malaysia’s Covid-19 case tally to 293,698 infections.
“Since the enforcement of the Emergency Ordinance on Jan 11, 2021, Malaysia has seen a consistent decline trend in daily new cases and today, for the first time, the country is once again reporting less than 2,000 daily cases.