KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 14 — Malaysia added another 20,670 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 1,384,353 cases as of today.
Selangor topped the list again with a whopping 6,606 cases.
The other states and federal territories with over 1,000 cases are: Kuala Lumpur (2,028 cases), Sabah (1,752 cases), Kedah (1,796 cases), Johor (1,425 cases), Penang (1,251 cases), Kelantan (1,370 cases) and Perak (1,003 cases).
Labuan is the only territory today with zero cases while Perlis had 61 cases.
Apart from that, Negri Sembilan had 727 cases, Sarawak (725 cases), Pahang (794 cases), Melaka (521 cases) and Terengganu (560 cases).
Putrajaya, which at one point had zero cases for a period of time, recorded 51 new cases for a total of 4,834 since the pandemic hit.
“Of the 20,670 infections today, 676 are Category 3, 4, and 5 while 19,994 are Category 1 and 2. However, this is the current status of these individuals and their status is ever changing.
“About 2,646 or 12.8 per cent of today’s infected individuals have already been fully vaccinated for two weeks,” said Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a statement.
He also stated that there were 34 new clusters nationwide. Kelantan led with eight, followed by Johor (six), four each in Selangor and Pahang, three each in Kuala Lumpur and Penang, two each in Melaka and Sarawak and one each in Perak and Negri Sembilan.
Selangor had 385 active clusters that contributed to today’s cases. Of the total infections (6,606), 3,377 were close contacts, five imported cases and 2,839 were categorised as from other sources.
Kuala Lumpur, on the other hand, saw 134 clusters comprising 949 close contact cases, one imported case and 944 from other sources.
