KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 26): Malaysia’s new Covid-19 cases rose to 3,585 today, from 3,048 reported on Monday, marking the third straight day of cases staying above the 3,000 mark with 11 more deaths recorded.
Among the new infections today, two were imported meaning they had contracted the virus from abroad while 3,583 were local transmissions, said health director-general (DG) Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
Dr Noor Hisham said among the locally transmitted cases, 3,053 or 85.2% involved Malaysians, while 530 or 14.8% were foreigners.
This raised the cumulative Covid-19 infections to 190,434 from just 113,010 as at Dec 31, 2020. The 11 additional fatalities also pushed the coronavirus death toll to 700, according to his statement.
Covid-19 (Jan 26): 3,585 new cases, record numbers in ICU
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Modified26 Jan 2021, 12:04 pm
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COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today reported 3,585 new Covid-19 cases amidst a growing number of patients who require intensive care and ventilators to breathe.
Leading indicators:
Patients in ICU: 280 ↑ (19 more than the previous day)
Intubated patients: 111 ↑ (10 more than the previous day)
Deaths: 11
The Klang Valley reported the most number of new cases (54.3 percent) followed by Johor (14.6 percent) and Sabah (8.6 percent).
In Selangor, 187 new cases were detected among individuals without symptoms and are not linked to existing clusters. This is relatively higher, considering that most states are reporting new cases in the double digits only.
PUTRAJAYA: A Covid-19 outbreak involving a religious centre has been detected in Kulim, Kedah.
The outbreak has 34 confirmed cases so far, and is one of the seven new Covid-19 clusters, identified by the Health Ministry on Tuesday (Jan 26).
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the cluster, dubbed “Keladi Saga”, was linked to infections in Kampung Keladi and Taman Saga in Kulim.
“Since Jan 21,49 people linked to the cluster have been screened with 34 of them tested positive, ” he said in a statement.
The index case involved a 64-year-old man who developed symptoms such as cough, fever, flu and muscle pain since Jan 14.