Only one of the 3,660 new Covid-19 cases reported in Sarawak today required ventilator support, said the State Disaster Management Committee. 

In a statement, it said the other cases were either asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. 

Out of the total new cases reported, 1,541 of them were detected in Kuching district, Samarahan (268), Sibu (255), Serian (245), Bintulu (219), Miri (189), Bau (159) and Asajaya (129), the committee said. 

Some 18 districts recorded an increase of between 12 and 99 new cases, nine districts between one and eight cases, while the other three districts did not record any new cases.

Five new deaths were recorded today with two of them in Sibu and one each in Kuching, Mukah and Miri, bringing the death toll in Sarawak to 656.

- Bernama