Covid-19 (Nov 27): 5,097 cases, R-naught holds steady under 1.0

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 5,097 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,619,577.

The fresh infections today comprised 4,890 Malaysians (95.9 percent) and 207 non-citizens (4.1 percent).

They were surpassed by a total of 5,352 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

• Patients in ICU: 510
• Intubated: 258

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 4.1 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also declined by 1.1 percent from a week ago.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 3.7 percent compared to the preceding week.

The R-naught value, or infectivity rate, remains at 0.99 as of Nov 25. 

The value must be kept under 1.0 to prevent exponential growth in new infections.

The states breakdown of today's new cases will only be released after midnight.

The breakdown by states for yesterday (Nov 26), where 5,501 new cases were reported, is as follows:

Selangor (1,479)
Sabah (486)
Kelantan (442)
Johor (430)
Kedah (428)
Kuala Lumpur (400)
Penang (369)
Pahang (358)
Perak (262)
Malacca (229)
Terengganu (189)
Negeri Sembilan (159)
Sarawak (144)
Putrajaya (69)
Perlis (30)
Labuan (27)

Penang saw a spike yesterday, recording the highest number of fresh infections in 29 days.

However, fresh infections in Sarawak have been on the downtrend ahead of the state polls on Dec 18.

Clusters

To date, 234 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including eight new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 2.5 percent from the 240 active clusters a week ago.