KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 3 — Malaysia registered 19,378 cases today, dropping slightly below the 20,000 mark, with Selangor leading the list with 3,613 new infections, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah tweeted.
Of this number, 19,046 patients fall under categories one and two.
Sarawak and Sabah followed suit with 2,464 and 2,404 cases respectively.
Johor recorded 2,331 cases, Penang (1,726), Kedah (1,470), Perak (1,389), Kelantan (1,356), the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur (740) and Pahang (559).
Terengganu recorded 532 cases, Melaka (399), Negri Sembilan (270), Perlis (80), Putrajaya (41) and the Federal Territory of Labuan recorded only four cases.
“If we look at the 19,378 daily cases reported today, a total of 332 cases (1.7 per cent) are from categories three, four and five. While another 19,046 cases (98.3 per cent) are from categories one and two.
“In total, 8,847 cases (45.7 per cent) of the total cases reported today had no history of vaccination, 4,638 cases (23.9 per cent) had received at least one dose of vaccine, while 5,893 cases (30.4 per cent) had a completed history of vaccination,” Dr Noor Hisham said.
Currently, there are 259,189 active Covid-19 cases, with 1,388 requiring treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), out of which 975 are confirmed cases, 413 are suspected to be either Covid-19 positive, probable or under investigation.
Of the 762 Covid-19 requiring ventilators, 463 are confirmed cases, while 299 are suspected to be either Covid-19 positive, probable or under investigation.
