COVID: New cases increase to 4,262 - Health DG

KUALA LUMPUR: New COVID-19 cases reported in the country went up to 4,262 cases today, compared to 3,900 yesterday, taking the cumulative total to 2,707,402 now.

Health director-general, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said from 4,262 cases, 4,226 were local transmissions while 36 more cases were imported.

"From the total new cases today, 78 cases or 1.8 per cent are in categories three, four and five while 4,184 cases or 98.2 per cent involve categories one and two," he said in a statement today.

Categories one and two refer to COVID-19 patients with no or mild symptoms while categories three, four and five are patients with lung infection, requiring oxygen aid and respiratory assistance.Dr Noor Hisham said there were 4,985 recovery cases today bringing the total recoveries to 2,620,147 while 383 cases were being treated at intensive care units (ICU) with 198 of them on ventilators.

He said six new clusters were detected today and the total active clusters are 248 apart from the Rt (infectivity rate) in Malaysia as of yesterday at 0.92 .

He added that the detailed Rt as of Dec 16 according to states showed Negeri Sembilan with the highest reading at 1.02, followed by Pahang, Penang and Melaka at 1.00 respectively.

-- BERNAMA