COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 6,377 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,454,749.
The new cases were surpassed by a total of 6,637 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.
Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 17.0 percent compared to the preceding week.
However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Terengganu (+82.6 percent), Pahang (+33.2 percent) and Kedah (+22.9 percent).
- Patients in ICU: 564
- Intubated: 294
The number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 15.3 percent lower compared to a week ago.
Those who require intubation have also declined by 3.9 percent from a week ago.
Beginning Oct 9, the Health Ministry will only publish the latest breakdown of new cases by states after midnight on its CovidNow portal.
The breakdown by states for yesterday (Oct 27), where 6,148 new cases were reported, is as follows:
Selangor (1,222)
Sarawak (780)
Kelantan (612)
Sabah (585)
Johor (555)
Kedah (496)
Pahang (365)
Penang (325)
Terengganu (290)
Kuala Lumpur (273)
Perak (251)
Negeri Sembilan (176)
Malacca (156)
Perlis (42)
Putrajaya (14)
Labuan (6)
Genomic surveillance
Based on the Health Ministry's genomic surveillance conducted from Oct 20 up to today, a total of 259 samples from Covid-19 patients have been sequenced.
All 259 turned out to be Covid-19 variants of concern - 257 of them were the highly infectious Delta variant, and two were the more vaccine-resistant but less infectious Beta variant.
This shows that the Delta variant remains the dominant variant in Malaysia, after outpacing the previously prevalent Beta variant since June.
The sequencing was carried out by a consortium of five research institutes, namely the Institue for Medical Research (IMR), Universiti Malaya's medical faculty (FOM-UM) and its Tropical Infectious Diseases Research & Education Centre (Tidrec), UiTM's Integrative Pharmacogenomics Institute (iPromise UiTM), and the Malaysia Genome Institute (MGI).
Clusters
To date, 474 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including eight new ones.
The ongoing clusters have fallen by 19.8 percent from the 591 active clusters a week ago.
The eight new clusters comprised five workplace clusters (62.5 percent), one high-risk group cluster (12.5 percent), one community cluster (12.5 percent) and one Education Ministry institution cluster (12.5 percent).
Industri Jalan Kemajuan Bangi 2
Category: Workplace
States: Selangor
District(s): Hulu Langat
Initial tests: 29 out of 44 infected (65.9 percent)
Industri Jalan Telok Mengkuang
Category: Workplace
States: Selangor
District(s): Kuala Langat
Initial tests: 15 out of 200 infected (7.5 percent)
Jalan Besi
Category: Workplace
States: Kuala Lumpur
District(s): Lembah Pantai
Initial tests: 8 out of 21 infected (38.1 percent)
Paya Pasir
Category: Workplace
States: Pahang
District(s): Maran
Initial tests: 15 out of 66 infected (22.7 percent)
Industri Banang Jaya
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Batu Pahat
Initial tests: 18 out of 67 infected (26.9 percent)
Jalan Batu Gantung
Category: High-risk group
States: Penang
District(s): Timur Laut
Initial tests: 42 out of 57 infected (73.7 percent)
Jalan Marsom
Category: Community
States: Selangor
District(s): Sabak Bernam
Initial tests: 10 out of 22 infected (45.5 percent)
Merinding 2
Category: Education Ministry institution
States: Labuan
District(s): Labuan
Initial tests: 11 out of 498 infected (2.2 percent)
