PUTRAJAYA, Oct 31 — A total of 1,000 Covid-19 recovery cases were recorded today, the highest since the pandemic began in the country, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The number of positive cases recorded today also dropped to 659 (from 799 yesterday), with no deaths and no new clusters recorded.
Dr Noor Hisham said the latest development took the total number of recoveries to 21,248 while Covid-19 active cases with infectivity potential stood at 10,051.
“Of the 659 new cases today, one was an imported case involving a foreigner returning from Bangladesh. For local transmissions, Sabah had 529 cases while states in the Klang Valley recorded 70 cases.
“With no new clusters detected today, the total number of active clusters remains at 133, while 114 clusters have been declared over,” he said at a press conference on Covid-19 today.
Dr Noor Hisham said Sabah and the Klang Valley contributed a total of 599 cases or 90.9 per cent of the total number of daily positive Covid-19 cases.
All these states are still under the conditional movement control order (CMCO), he said.
Detailing the breakdown of cases in other states, he said Selangor recorded 55 cases; Negeri Sembilan (25); Labuan (12); Kuala Lumpur (11); Sarawak (nine); Perak (six); Putrajaya (four); Kedah, Penang and Terengganu (two each); and Pahang and Kelantan (one each).
He said 137 of those cases were linked to the prison and temporary detention centre clusters involving the Kepayan Prison Cluster (26 cases) and Rumah Merah Cluster (111 cases).
He also said that 83 patients are undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit, with 19 requiring respiratory assistance.
With no fatalities recorded today, the death toll remains at 249.
— Bernama
