KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 16): Malaysia today recorded 1,103 new Covid-19 cases, 49% from the Klang Valley alone, as it marked the fourth day in a row where daily cases stayed in the four-figure zone, with total confirmed infections in the country rising to 48,520.
The Klang Valley, comprising Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, contributed 544 of the new cases, surpassing Sabah's contribution of 288 new infections, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).
MoH director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the surge of infections in the Klang Valley came from existing Covid-19 clusters.
“The cluster that recorded the highest number of new cases was the Damanlela construction site cluster in Kuala Lumpur, with 385 cases,” Dr Noor Hisham told a media briefing today, adding that the cluster now has 1,132 confirmed Covid-19 cases, after 3,097 people were screened.
Most construction site clusters like this Damanlela cluster involve foreign workers, said Dr Noor Hisham.
And in the Klang Valley, Kuala Lumpur topped the list with the most new Covid-19 infections at 392 cases, followed by Selangor with 151 and Putrajaya with one.
Notably, Dr Noor Hisham said Perak also saw a spike in new cases to 116 from just 21 cases reported yesterday, as the Tembok cluster there recorded 111 new cases as of noon today.
Meanwhile, four more Covid-19 patients have succumbed to the illness in Sabah — involving two men and two women aged between 46 and 73 — raising the country’s Covid-19 death toll to 313.
Active cases, which carry high transmissions risks, also continued to climb and reached a new high of 12,601, as recoveries came in below new infections — at 821. This means a recovery rate of 73.4%, with 35,606 people having recovered from the illness so far.
From the new cases today, one was imported and involved a Malaysian who returned from Saudi Arabia.
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