Covid-19 (July 6): 3,561 new cases, highest since April 24

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 3,561 new daily Covid-19 cases yesterday - the highest since April 24.

However, the hospitalisation of Covid-19 patients remained relatively stable over the past week.

Active cases currently stood at 31,540, up 15.5 percent compared to 14 days ago.

New cases recorded according to states are as follows:

Selangor (1,341)
Kuala Lumpur (994)
Perak (243)
Sabah (196)
Negeri Sembilan (160)
Putrajaya (123)
Penang (119)
Malacca (97)
Johor (72)
Sarawak (55)
Kedah (51)
Pahang (38)
Kelantan (37)
Terengganu (17)
Perlis (11)
Labuan (7)

Another five deaths attributed to Covid-19 were reported yesterday, of which two were declared as "brought in dead".

These deaths were reported in Selangor (2), Pahang (1), Sarawak (1) and Kuala Lumpur (1).

Over the past week, an average of 4.1 people daily were reported to have died of Covid-19, while the average for the past 30 days was 3.4, indicating that Covid-19 deaths are on the uptrend.

Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, a total of 35,792 deaths have been attributed to Covid-19.

There are 1,184 Covid-19 patients who are hospitalised of which 40 are in intensive care.

The highest number of admissions yesterday was recorded in Selangor (172) followed by Johor (88) and Sabah (80).