KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 — After exceeding 24,000 cases yesterday, Malaysia saw a drop in its new Covid-19 caseload today.

The Health Ministry recorded 22,070 new cases with Selangor still unshaken from the top spot despite a slight dip today with 5,920 cases compared to yesterday’s 6,936 infections.

Sabah, which came in second with 3,010 cases today, also saw its number dropping a little compared to yesterday.

Labuan had the fewest cases today, logging only eight infections.

To date, Malaysia has logged 1,662,913 cases cumulatively.

"From the total number of cases today, 18, 832 were locals while 3, 223 were foreigners. There were 15 imported cases, seven of them foreigners. The total number of active cases stands at 265,695,” said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a statement.

"Apart from that, 412 of today’s cases are in Category 3,4 and 5. Overall, 17,029 of the total cases reported today were those who are either partially or not vaccinated at all. So please get vaccinated and hopefully we can reduce infections.”

There were also 28 new clusters, nine of them in Sarawak. The rest were in Kelantan (five clusters), Selangor and Penang (four clusters), Pahang (three clusters), Johor (two clusters) and one cluster in Terengganu.

Sarawak has the thid highest number of cases today at 2,224 cases followed by Kedah (2,072 cases), Penang (1,829 cases), Johor (1,809 cases), Kuala Lumpur (1,068 cases), Kelantan (1,051 cases), Perak (939 cases), Pahang (610 cases), Melaka (589 cases), Terengganu (488 cases), Negri Sembilan (338 cases), Perlis (76 cases) and Putrajaya (39 cases).