KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 — The Ministry of Health (MoH) announced today that there were 9,751 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.
This represents a slight drop from yesterday’s 9,890 new infections, but also means daily cases have remained below 10,000 for the sixth consecutive day.
Selangor led new case numbers at 1,796, followed by Sarawak (1,339), Kelantan (1,052), Johor (864) and Sabah (705).
The Federal Territory of Labuan recorded the lowest in daily cases at two.
Meanwhile, Kuala Lumpur saw a slight uptick in new infections with 313 cases.
Today’s figures bring the total cumulative cases to 2,323,478 since the pandemic began last year.
Meanwhile in a statement later, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the current total active cases stood at 129,049 as of midnight yesterday.
He said according to the Covid-19 capacity and usage of beds data, usage of non-intensive care unit (ICU) beds stands at 50 per cent or 16,031 patients, while those who are currently admitted in the ICU are at 55 per cent or 1,492 patients.
Dr Noor Hisham said that 10 new clusters have been detected in the past 24 hours pushing the total number of active clusters to 874 as of today.
Out of the total number of patients being treated in ICU, 386 needed ventilators.
Dr Noor Hisham also mentioned that only 206 cases are classified as in more critical condition, while the remaining only have mild symptoms.
