Covid-19 (Nov 21): 4,854 new cases, lowest in 13 days

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 4,854 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,586,601.

The fresh infections today is the lowest in 13 days since Nov 8.

They comprised 4,651 Malaysians (95.8 percent) and 203 non-citizens (4.2 percent).

The new cases today were surpassed by a total of 5,525 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

• Patients in ICU: 541
• Intubated: 267

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 3.2 percent higher compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also increased by 0.8 percent from a week ago.

Nationally, hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 2.8 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Penang (+29.2 percent) and Pahang (+14.6 percent) during the same period.

The Health Ministry will only publish the latest breakdown of today's new cases by states after midnight on its CovidNow portal.

The breakdown by states for yesterday (Nov 20), when 5,859 new cases were reported, is as follows:

Selangor (1,528)
Kelantan (614)
Sabah (545)
Johor (499)
Penang (367)
Kedah (364)
Pahang (362)
Kuala Lumpur (319)
Sarawak (255)
Perak (237)
Terengganu (225)
Negeri Sembilan (223)
Malacca (192)
Putrajaya (91)
Labuan (19)
Perlis (19)

To date, 235 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including three new clusters reported today.

Active clusters have fallen by 11.7 percent from 266 a week ago.