Covid-19 (Jan 10): 2,641 cases, lowest in 21 days

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 2,641 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,788,860.

They were surpassed by a total of 2,808 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

The number of fresh infections today is the lowest in 21 days, since Dec 20.

Meanwhile, there has been a slight uptick in the national Covid-19 R-number over the last few days, but the number remains below the 1.00 threshold at 0.98 as of yesterday.

However, several states have reached or exceeded that threshold, namely Labuan (1.19), Sabah (1.07), Kuala Lumpur (1.06), Malacca (1.03), Negeri Sembilan (1.02) and Kedah (1.00).

An R-number above 1.00 would indicate the spread of Covid-19 is accelerating and would lead to an exponential increase in case numbers if sustained.

• Patients in ICU: 253
• Intubated: 106

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions of confirmed Covid-19 patients in the last seven days have declined by 1.8 percent compared to the preceding week.

The Health Ministry will only publish today's breakdown of new cases by states after midnight on its CovidNow portal.

To date, 169 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including 4 new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 18.0 percent from the 206 active clusters a week ago.

The breakdown by states for yesterday (Jan 9), where 2,888 new cases were reported, is as follows:

Selangor (770)
Johor (326)
Kuala Lumpur (272)
Kedah (223)
Sabah (198)
Kelantan (195)
Penang (186)
Negeri Sembilan (158)
Pahang (148)
Malacca (139)
Perak (121)
Terengganu (90)
Sarawak (22)
Labuan (18)
Putrajaya (14)
Perlis (8)