PETALING JAYA: Four new Covid-19 clusters were recorded on Monday (March 8), says the Health Ministry.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said three of the four clusters were linked to the workplace while another was from the community.
Johor recorded two new clusters - Cyber 72 cluster and Jalan i-Park Tiga cluster - while Kuala Lumpur recorded one new cluster, the Jalan Loke Yew cluster.
All three are workplace clusters.
Terengganu recorded one new cluster, known as the Bukit Bayas cluster, which is a community cluster.
The Cyber 72 cluster was detected in Kulai, Johor, where the index case was found to be positive for Covid-19 on March 4 after a symptomatic individual screening.
Covid-19 (March 8): 1,529 cases, a new low for this year
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COVID-19 | The Health Ministry has reported 1,529 fresh Covid-19 cases, a new low for this year.
Daily infections peaked in late January with a record 5,729 cases on Jan 30.
The new cases for today are at the lowest level since Dec 27 last year.
Of the 1,529 new infections today, 1,180 are Malaysians while another 349 are non-citizens.
The number of active cases finally dipped under 20,000, helped by high recoveries of 2,076 cases today. Active cases are down from a peak of 51,783 on Feb 11.
Active cases are a measure of the strain Covid-19 hospitals are facing. The country has enough beds for 34,126 Covid-19 patients in public hospitals and quarantine centres.
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PETALING JAYA: The health ministry has detected 13 new Covid-19 clusters in the past 24 hours, health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today.
In a statement, he said 11 of them were workplace clusters, while the remaining two were community clusters,
FMT reported.
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Four of the clusters were detected in Johor, three in Selangor, two in Kuala Lumpur and one each in Negeri Sembilan, Kedah, Sabah and Sarawak.
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 9): Malaysia reported today 2,764 newly-confirmed Covid-19 infected individuals and 13 pandemic-related deaths, which brought the country s total number of fatalities due to the outbreak to 909 so far.
The Ministry of Health MOH said via Twitter today the 2,764 newly-infected individuals comprised 2,758 local-transmission and six imported cases.
“The last time the (daily) number of new cases was below 3,000 was on Jan 13 (2021),” the MOH said.
The MOH said today’s 2,764 newly-confirmed Covid-19-infected individuals brought the total number cases in the country to 248,316 so far.
According to the MoH, the cumulative number of active Covid-19 cases in the country stood at 50,841 so far.