New cases soar to 3,683 today - Health DG

KUALA LUMPUR: The daily COVID-19 infections in the country spiked above the 3,000 mark when 3,683 new cases were recorded today, compared to 2,897 cases yesterday, taking the cumulative total to 2,750,516.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said from the total new cases, 56 cases were in categories three, four and five while the remaining transmissions were in categories one and two with no or mild symptoms.

"The daily cases involved 3,444 local infections and 339 import cases. There are 288 cases in the intensive care unit (ICU) while 162 cases require respiratory assistance," he said in a statement on the development of COVID-19 today.

He said 4,322 recoveries were reported today, taking the cumulative total of recovered patients to 2,677,406.

In this regard, Dr Noor Hisham said six new clusters were detected bringing the total active clusters to 227 while the infectivity rate (Rt) in the country was 0.93 as at yesterday.

He said there were no COVID-19 cases logged among flood victims and overall cases stayed at 434 cases and there were no new clusters reported today among flood victims in temporary relief centres (PPS)

Meanwhile, there were 110 cases of infectious diseases among flood victims involving Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) (81 cases), skin disease (16) and Acute Gastroenteritis (AGE) (13).

-- BERNAMA