COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today announced that 6,243 new Covid-19 cases have been detected over the past 24 hours ending noon today.

For the second consecutive day, the number of new cases exceed the number of Covid-19 patients who recovered, which totalled 5,068. This is expected to contribute to a rise in the number of active cases.

This is the highest number of new daily cases since Oct 28.

• Patients in ICU: 543
• Intubated: 279

As of yesterday, the R-naught figure has been steadily rising to 0.96. As long as the R-naught stays below 1.00, the spread of Covid-19 is considered to be decelerating.

The R-naught has breached 1.00 in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya.

Daily hospitalisation of Covid-19 patients is down 6 percent this week compared to the previous week. However, hospitalisation is up marginally in Pahang and Johor.

The new daily cases breakdown by states will only be announced after midnight. This is the breakdown for yesterday:

Selangor (1,080)
Kelantan (792)
Sabah (545)
Sarawak (416)
Kuala Lumpur (413)
Kedah (412)
Johor (385)
Pahang (258)
Terengganu (246)
Pulau Pinang (245)
Melaka (200)
Perak (161)
Negeri Sembilan (160)
Putrajaya (48)
Perlis (35)
Labuan (7)

Clusters

To date, 300 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including 7 new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 23.1 percent from the 390 active clusters a week ago.

The seven new clusters today comprised two workplace clusters (28.6 percent), one high-risk group cluster (14.3 percent), one non-education ministry institution cluster (14.3 percent), one education ministry institution cluster (14.3 percent), one private educational institution cluster (14.3 percent) and one higher education cluster (14.3 percent).

Details of the new clusters are as follows:

Industri Batu 4 Jalan Kebun
Category: Workplace
States: Selangor
District(s): Klang and Kuala Langat
Initial tests: 70 out of 927 infected (7.6 percent)

Jalan Gajah Mati Machang Bubok
Category: High-risk group
States: Penang
District(s): Seberang Perai Tengah
Initial tests: 19 out of 20 infected (95.0 percent)

Pulai Chondong 2
Category: Non-Education Ministry institution
States: Kelantan
District(s): Machang
Initial tests: 7 out of 69 infected (10.1 percent)

Jalan Tanjong Mas
Category: Education Ministry institution
States: Kelantan
District(s): Kota Bharu
Initial tests: 25 out of 33 infected (75.8 percent)

Jalan Kempas Lapan
Category: Private educational institution registered under the Education Ministry
States: Johor
District(s): Kulai
Initial tests: 7 out of 58 infected (12.1 percent)

Sawit Mengkarak
Category: Workplace
States: Pahang
District(s): Bera
Initial tests: 51 out of 71 infected (71.8 percent)

Kandi Sungai Besi 2
Category: Pendidikan Tinggi
States: Kuala Lumpur
District(s): Cheras
Initial tests: 18 out of 30 infected (60.0 percent)