Covid-19 (Feb 11): Daily cases breach 20,000 mark
The fresh infections today is the highest in 154 days, since Sept 10.
As of last night, the R-number for Malaysia has reached 1.51. A R-number...
COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 20,939 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,996,361.
They were more than the number of Covid-19 patients who recovered, which totalled 5,807. This is expected to increase the number of active cases.
The fresh infections today are the highest in 154 days, since Sept 10.
As of last night, the R-number for Malaysia has reached 1.51. For comparison, the highest R-number reported by the ministry in 2021 was 1.21 on May 23 that year, shortly after the country recorded its first Delta variant cases.
An R-number of more than 1.00 suggests that the spread of Covid-19 was accelerating.
At the state level, every state has a figure that is above 1.00. The highest figure was observed in Labuan (2.17).
The number of people who have been hospitalised due to Covid-19 is 5,319 as of yesterday, up 97 percent compared to two weeks ago.
In Sabah, the situation is very acute with 875 Covid-19 patients hospitalised, up 161 percent compared to two weeks ago.
Only 13.5 percent of Sabah's population has received their Covid-19 booster vaccine, far below the national average of 39.8 percent.
The breakdown of new daily cases at the state level will only be released after midnight. These are the figures for yesterday (Feb 10), when 19,090 new cases were reported.
Selangor (3,779)
Sabah (2,969)
Johor (2,837)
Kedah (1,956)
Kelantan (1,439)
Penang (1,267)
Kuala Lumpur (1,005)
Negeri Sembilan (997)
Pahang (795)
Malacca (728)
Perak (373)
Terengganu (324)
Sarawak (226)
Putrajaya (183)
Labuan (106)
Perlis (106)
At present, 155 Covid-19 patients are in the intensive care unit of which 80 are unable to breathe on their own and have been intubated.
This is an increase of 31.4 percent compared to the 118 Covid-19 patients in the intensive care unit a week ago.
To date, 410 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including 20 new clusters reported today.
The ongoing clusters have seen an increase of 18.5 percent from the 346 a week ago.
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