Covid-19: Malaysia records 1,178 new cases

KUALA LUMPUR (April 1): Malaysia today recorded 1,178 new Covid-19 cases, down from 1,482 yesterday, the third straight day the daily new cases have exceeded 1,000. 

Of the new additions, 1,158 were from local transmissions while 20 were imported. The country’s Covid-19 tally climbed to 346,678 as of noon today.

Sarawak today recorded the highest number of new infections at 238, followed closely by Selangor (237) and Penang (190), Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a statement.

Six more deaths were reported — two in Sarawak and one each in Johor, Kelantan, Kuala Lumpur and Sabah — pushing the death toll to 1,278, he said. Five were Malaysians while one was a foreigner, aged between 54 and 81 years.

The number of active cases, meanwhile, fell to 14,339, from 14,604 yesterday, as 1,377 patients have recovered. Total recoveries stood at 331,001 or 95.5% of overall cases.

Six new clusters identified

Meanwhile, six more infection clusters have been identified, of which five are linked to workplaces while one is a community infection.

The five workplace clusters are the Jalan Sungai Ramal cluster in Hulu Langat, Selangor with 15 infections; the Bukit Serdang cluster involving Hulu Langat and Petaling in Selangor (29); the Jalan Teluk Kumbar cluster in Barat Daya, Penang (12); the Kait Gading cluster in Batu Pahat, Johor (65); and the Jalan Permas Cetak cluster in Johor Bahru, Johor (nine).

The lone community infection cluster — the Taman Emas cluster in Lipis, Pahang — had 16 infections.

So far, 1,378 Covid-19 clusters have been detected in the country while 1,016 have been declared ended.

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