KUALA LUMPUR (June 14): The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced 17 new Covid-19 clusters today, of which 12 were workplace clusters, three were community clusters and one was linked to a high-risk group.
They were detected in Selangor, Johor, Kelantan, Kuala Lumpur, Sarawak, Perak and Negeri Sembilan. To date, 2,494 clusters have been reported across the country, while 1,720 have been declared ended.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah noted that 1,328 workplace clusters have been identified to date. Consequently, 147,040 individuals tested positive for Covid-19, from a total of 624,246 individuals who had gone for the screening test.
The positive Covid-19 cases in the workplace clusters involved 100,086 non-Malaysians and 46,954 Malaysians.
He said, the manufacturing sector recorded the highest infections at 95,156, involving 639 clusters.
Malaysia reported 4,949 new daily Covid-19 cases today — the lowest number in 27 days — bringing cumulative confirmed infections to 662,457.
The last time the daily number of new cases was below 5,000-level was on May 18 when 4,865 new infections were reported.
The country's seven-day moving average of daily new cases has been on a downward trend for the 10th consecutive day to 5,767 today from the peak of 7,434 cases on June 5.
Sadly, 60 more fatalities linked to the coronavirus were recorded today, according to MOH.
The number of active cases, which carry high transmission risks, dropped further to 71,625 from an all-time high of 86,628 on June 6. The number of daily recoveries came in at 6,558, higher than new infections. To date, some 586,864 have recovered from Covid-19 in the country, a recovery rate of 88.6%.
Currently, 921 Covid-19 patients are being treated in intensive care units, of whom 459 are on ventilators.