Covid-19 (Jan 3): 2,690 cases, infectivity rate still at 0.99

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 2,690 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,767,044.

The fresh infections today are the lowest in two weeks, since Dec 20. It is also surpassed by a total of 3,535 Covid-19 patients who recovered today, which is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

Meanwhile, the infectivity rate remains stable at 0.99 as of yesterday, although it is up from 0.88 on Dec 25. 

A sustained value of above 1.0 will lead to an exponential growth in fresh Covid-19 infections.

Patients in ICU: 265
Intubated: 147

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 10.8 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also declined by 13.0 percent from a week ago.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions of confirmed Covid-19 patients in the last seven days has declined by 2.1 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, bucking the national trend, hospital admissions of confirmed Covid-19 patients in Negeri Sembilan (+17.7 percent) rose during the same period.

To date, 206 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including 3 new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 7.6 percent from the 223 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 (Jan 2), when 2,882 new cases were reported, is as follows:

Selangor (734)
Johor (407)
Kelantan (275)
Kedah (225)
Pahang (203)
Penang (166)
Sabah (165)
Perak (149)
Malacca (148)
Kuala Lumpur (135)
Terengganu (122)
Negeri Sembilan (89)
Putrajaya (19)
Sarawak (17)
Labuan (15)
Perlis (13)