KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 — The number of daily new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia has climbed back up to 6,239, following two days of new cases being below the 6,000 mark, the latest Health Ministry statistics have shown.

Selangor alone contributed more than one-third or 36.7 per cent of the new cases today, with 2,291 recorded in this highly populous state.

This was followed by Kuala Lumpur at 704, Negri Sembilan at 507, Johor (468) and Sarawak (419).

Together, the four accounted for a combined 2,098 cases or about one-third or 33.63 of the new cases today.

The remaining nearly one-third or almost 30 per cent of the new cases today were recorded in Kelantan (340 cases), Sabah and Pahang at both 232 cases each, Labuan (200), Penang (194), Perak (175), Terengganu (171), Melaka (150), Kedah (135), Putrajaya at 17 cases, and Perlis at four cases. 

The 6,239 cases today were mostly locally transmitted at 6,228 cases (5,377 Malaysians and 851 non-Malaysians). Only 11 cases were imported (seven Malaysians, four non-Malaysians).

With the 6,239 new Covid-19 cases recorded today, this brings Malaysia’s total cumulative number of Covid-19 cases recorded so far to 633,891 cases.

A total of 7,386 patients were recorded as having recovered today, which means 548,705 or 86.6 per cent of the Covid-19 cases recorded in the country have recovered so far.

Currently, there are 81,575 Covid-19 cases that are still active or require treatment, including a record high of 905 in intensive care units (ICUs) with 453 of the ICU patients needing respiratory support.

A total of 75 deaths from Covid-19 were recorded today.

The country recorded 15 new clusters today, which collectively accounted for 423 Covid-19 cases.

Of these 15 clusters, 13 of them are linked to the workplace (with five workplace clusters in Selangor, two workplace clusters in Sabah and one each in Kelantan, Terengganu, Penang, Perak, Johor and Kedah), one community cluster in Kelantan, and one private education institution registered with the Education Ministry in Putrajaya and Selangor.

Out of the 15 clusters, the one with the most cases involves a workplace in Kemaman, Terengganu. The Industri Teluk Kalong cluster, as it is called, has 103 people testing positive out of 1,500 screened.