COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 5,551 new Covid-19 cases today, amidst a declining number of hospitalisation of Covid-19 patients.

However, the new cases were more than the number of Covid-19 patients who recovered, which totalled 5,301. This is expected to contribute to a rise in the number of active cases.

• Patients in ICU: 499
• Intubated: 269

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 9.5 percent compared to the previous period.

Apart from a slight increase in hospitalisations in Putrajaya, hospital admissions are down elsewhere.

Hospital bed utilisation by Covid-19 patients is above 80 percent only in Terengganu and Malacca.

The R-naught for the country is 0.96 after spending three days at 0.95. The R-naught is above 1.00 only in Selangor, Perlis and Putrajaya.

A breakdown of new cases according to state will only be released after midnight. These are yesterday's figures:

Selangor (1,726)
Kelantan (640)
Johor (635)
Sabah (427)
Kuala Lumpur (385)
Pahang (354)
Kedah (332)
Penang (262)
Malacca (249)
Perak (228)
Terengganu (191)
Negeri Sembilan (181)
Sarawak (91)
Putrajaya (53)
Perlis (47)
Labuan (5)

Clusters

To date, 228 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including six new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 3.4 percent from the 236 active clusters a week ago.