KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 21): Malaysia's new Covid-19 cases rose to 6,210 on Thursday — up 12.58% from 5,516 a day earlier — after staying below the 6,000 mark for three consecutive days.

Of the latest infections, 6,168 were local transmissions and 42 were imported cases, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

He said only 116 or 1.9% of Thursday's cases were regarded as serious (Categories 3, 4 and 5), while the other 6,094 or 98.1% were Categories 1 and 2 cases.

Meanwhile, 677 individuals were being cared for at the intensive care units, of whom 501 were confirmed to be positive for Covid-19 while 176 were suspected cases.

Of these, 319 patients needed ventilators to help them breathe, including 205 confirmed Covid-19-positive.

Daily recoveries continued to come in higher than daily infections at 7,562, bringing the total recoveries to 2,303,583. In contrast, the country's cumulative Covid-19 infections to date is 2,413,592.

In terms of Covid-19 clusters, Dr Noor Hisham said six new clusters were identified in the last 24 hours, for a total of 591 active clusters.

Three of the new clusters were related to communities detected in Selangor, Sabah and Negeri Sembilan, involving a total of 74 infections.

Two others were workplace clusters in Negeri Sembilan and Selangor with a total of 61 infections, while a high-risk group cluster identified in Sabah had 34 infections.

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