Covid-19 (Feb 4): 7,234 cases, highest since last Oct

COVID-19 | The number of new Covid-19 cases are continuing to climb, logging 7,234 today.

This is the highest number of new daily cases since Oct 16 (111 days).

The number of fresh infections were more than the number of Covid-19 patients who recovered, which totalled 5,254. This is expected to increase the number of active cases.

The number of active Covid-19 cases has risen to 61,429 as of yesterday - up 55 percent compared to a month ago.

As of yesterday, 3,298 Covid-19 patients have been hospitalised, up 22 percent from a recent low of 2,698 on Jan 20.

The R-naught for the country yesterday was 1.11. At the state level, the highest R-naught is in Perlis (1.25) followed by Johor (1.20).

Apart from Labuan, no part of the country has a R-naught of less than 1.00. A R-naught of more than 1.00 suggests that the spread of Covid-19 was accelerating.

The breakdown of new cases according to states will only be available after midnight. These are the figures for yesterday (5,720 new cases):

Selangor (1,563)
Johor (932)
Kedah (486)
Sabah (476)
Penang (387)
Kuala Lumpur (358)
Pahang (330)
Malacca (301)
Kelantan (258)
Perak (218)
Negeri Sembilan (210)
Terengganu (100)
Putrajaya (44)
Perlis (32)
Sarawak (20)
Labuan (5)

At present, 118 Covid-19 patients are in the intensive care unit of which 57 are unable to breathe on their own and have been intubated.

This is a decrease of 7.1 percent compared to the 127 Covid-19 patients in the intensive care unit a week ago.

To date, 346 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including 21 new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have seen an increase of 19.7 percent from the 289 active clusters a week ago.