KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — Daily Covid-19 cases rose to 6,387 from a slightly lower figure yesterday, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah announced today.

So far, July has seen no days of cases dipping below 6,000.

Selangor is still contributing the most number of cases as the country’s most populous state continues to ramp up testing. Nearly a third — 2,610 — of cases as of noon came from Selangor.

Kuala Lumpur came in second with 819 cases.

Cumulative positive cases are now 785,039 but with a total number of discharged cases at 710,018.

The number of discharged patients today is 4,532, the Ministry of Health said.

Meanwhile Covid-19 claimed 77 more lives as at noon, bringing the total number of deaths to 5,574.

June alone saw the number of deaths surged at a record pace from previous months.