Covid-19 (Dec 13): 3,504 cases

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 3,504 new Covid-19 cases today, the second day in a row in which new cases are below the 4,000 mark.

The fresh infections comprised 3,379 Malaysians (96.4 percent) and 125 non-citizens (3.6 percent).

They were surpassed by a total of 4,401 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

• Patients in ICU: 408
• Intubated: 206

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 11.9 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also declined by 17.3 percent from a week ago.

As of last night, the R-naught for Malaysia is 0.95. The R-naught has been on a six-day downtrend.

Only Penang, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan has an R-naught above 1.00.

Hospital admission of Covid-19 patients is 5.6 percent lower over the past seven days compared to the preceding week.

However, bucking the national trend, hospital admissions of confirmed Covid-19 patients in Penang (+27.8 percent) and Negeri Sembilan (+27.1 percent) rose during the same period.

A state-level breakdown of new Covid-19 cases will only be published by the Health Ministry after midnight. These are yesterday's figures:

Selangor (954)
Kelantan (329)
Johor (322)
Pahang (301)
Penang (243)
Perak (241)
Sabah (197)
Kuala Lumpur (194)
Kedah (169)
Malacca (150)
Negeri Sembilan (149)
Terengganu (144)
Sarawak (54)
Labuan (21)
Putrajaya (15)
Perlis (7)

To date, 246 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including six new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have seen an increase of 5.1 percent from the 234 active clusters a week ago.