Covid-19 (Dec 29): 3,683 cases

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 3,683 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,750,516.

The fresh infections today is the highest in 11 days, since Dec 18.

However, they are still surpassed by a total of 4,322 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

As of yesterday, the R-number for Covid-19 in Malaysia is 0.93 with no states exceeding the 1.00 threshold. However, Terengganu's R-number is exactly 1.00.

An R-number below 1.00 suggests the outbreak is shrinking, while an R-number of 1.00 suggests the outbreak is stable - neither growing nor shrinking.

• Patients in ICU: 288
• Intubated: 162

Those who require intubation have also declined by 12.9 percent from a week ago.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions of confirmed Covid-19 patients in the last seven days have declined by 7.7 percent compared to the preceding week.

To date, 227 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including 6 new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 3.0 percent from the 234 active clusters a week ago.

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

The breakdown by states for yesterday (Dec 28), where 2,897 new cases were reported, is as follows:

Selangor (675)
Johor (297)
Kelantan (295)
Kedah (245)
Pahang (215)
Kuala Lumpur (205)
Terengganu (190)
Penang (183)
Sabah (168)
Malacca (144)
Perak (117)
Negeri Sembilan (94)
Putrajaya (24)
Perlis (22)
Sarawak (19)
Labuan (4)