KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 2): Malaysia reported the highest number of Covid-19 deaths today at 219 – the eight straight day that daily fatalities stayed in the three-digit range.

The previous record high of daily fatalities was 207, posted on July 27 and 28 respectively.

New daily Covid-19 cases nationwide meanwhile fell to 15,764, after staying above the 16,000 mark for six consecutive days. This is 8.08% lower than the 17,150 infections recorded yesterday, and raised the nation’s total to 1.15 million cases.

In a statement, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said nearly half or 105 of today’s deaths were reported in Selangor.

This was followed by 41 deaths in Kuala Lumpur, 24 in Johor, nine in Melaka, eight in Pahang, seven in Negeri Sembilan, six each in Kedah and Perak, four each in Kelantan and Terengganu, three in Sabah, and one each in Labuan and Perlis.

The country’s Covid-19 death toll now stands at 9,403, Dr Noor Hisham said.

This year alone from Jan 1 until Aug 2, the Covid-19 virus has killed 8,932 people across the country, compared with just 471 fatalities recorded last year.

The director-general said the new cases reported today were detected after 105,785 individuals were screened across the country (down 11.25% from 119,190 yesterday), representing a positive rate of 14.9%.

Meanwhile, active cases climbed further to 199,051, as daily Covid-19 infections continued outpacing recoveries for the 38th day running. A total of 1,063 patients are being treated in the intensive care unit, including 532 on ventilators.

The number of patients discharged today was 11,767, bringing total recoveries to 937,732.

Selangor reports over 6,000 new cases

Selangor continued to report the most new cases at 6,067, followed by Kuala Lumpur (1,536), Johor (1,222), Sabah (1,166) and Kedah (1,108).

Elsewhere, Negeri Sembilan posts 862 cases, followed by Perak (748), Penang (667), Kelantan (552), Pahang (475), Melaka (463), Terengganu (425), Sarawak (411), Putrajaya (46), Perlis (nine) and Labuan (seven).

Cumulatively, Selangor registered 419,812 infections to-date, followed by Kuala Lumpur (126,649) and Johor (92,950).

Only 1.8% of new cases deemed serious

Dr Noor Hisham said 15,478 (98.2%) of today’s Covid-19 cases were in Categories 1 and 2, while the remaining 286 cases (1.8%) were in Categories 3, 4 and 5.

He added that 3,525 (22.4%) of the latest cases comprised people who were vaccinated.

The breakdown of categories and vaccinated persons is as follows:

-8,783 cases from Category 1 (no symptoms); 87.7% unvaccinated

-6,695 cases from Category 2 (mild symptoms); 64.5% unvaccinated

-135 cases from Category 3 (patients with pneumonia); 63.7% unvaccinated

-64 cases from Category 4 (pneumonia requiring oxygen therapy); 73.4% unvaccinated

-87 cases from Category 5 (critical cases requiring assisted ventilation); 97.7% unvaccinated

R0 falls to 1.08

Dr Noor Hisham said the country’s basic reproduction number for the coronavirus, the R0 (pronounced R-Naught), fell to 1.08 on Aug 1 from 1.1 previously.

Perlis had the highest R0 at 1.53, Terengganu (1.35), Kelantan (1.25), Kedah (1.22), Penang (1.20), Sabah (1.19), Perak (1.19), Putrajaya (1.16), Pahang (1.16), Johor (1.14), Kuala Lumpur (1.12), Sarawak (1.10), Melaka (1.10), and Selangor (1.08).

The R0 projects the average number of people each new Covid-19 patient will infect – or what is termed the effective reproduction number. An R0 of less than 1.0 means the infection is not spreading.

29 more clusters identified, active clusters now at 1,128

The Health Ministry reported 29 more Covid-19 clusters today, including 13 in the workplace and 11 in the community.

Of the rest, three were high risk group clusters, one was an education cluster and another one a religious cluster.

To date, 3,731 clusters have been reported across the nation, including 2,603 that have been declared ended. A total of 1,128 clusters are still active.

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