The Health Ministry said 1,616 new daily Covid-19 cases were reported yesterday, bringing the total cumulative cases to 5,006,855.

Active cases currently stood at 21,473, down -20.2 percent compared to 14 days ago.

New cases according to states are as follows:

Selangor (474)

Kuala Lumpur (154)

Sarawak (145)

Penang (130)

Kedah (104)

Malacca (96)

Negeri Sembilan (83)

Sabah (82)

Perak (77)

Putrajaya (75)

Kelantan (51)

Pahang (44)

Terengganu (42)

Johor (30)

Labuan (19)

Perlis (10)

Another four deaths attributed to Covid-19 were reported yesterday, of which 1 was declared as "brought in dead".

Over the past week, an average of 6.7 people were reported to have died of Covid-19, while the average for the past 30 days was 7.6, indicating that Covid-19 deaths are on the downtrend.

Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, a total of 36,742 deaths have been attributed to Covid-19.

The state with the highest death was Perak (2), followed by Selangor and Terengganu with one each.

There are 1,324 Covid-19 patients who are hospitalised of which 81 are in intensive care.

The highest number of admissions yesterday was recorded in Selangor (104) followed by Kedah (51) and Sabah (48).