News by syafiqah Salim

The new cases raised Malaysia's cumulative confirmed Covid-19 infections to 97,389, from just 65,697 cases at end-November.

“Following the easing of movement restrictions in early May 2020, works at all construction and property projects gradually picked up pace while traffic plying the expressways were returning to pre-movement restrictions level.”

Karex said the affected catheter facility is closed temporarily for disinfection and sanitisation processes and is expected to resume operations in stages beginning Dec 25.

Following this surge of new cases, the current number of active cases — meaning those who carry high transmission risks — breached the 16,000 mark for the first time with 16,496.

Among the public hospitals in Selangor, the one with the highest number of Covid-19 infections is the Tuanku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang with 54 cases, followed by Serdang Hospital with 29 cases, Sungai Buloh Hospital with 15 cases, and the Selayang Hospital (four cases).

The three are the Lebuh construction site cluster in Sepang, Selangor (20 cases), Jalan Tengah construction site cluster in Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur (11 cases), and the Persiaran Heights cluster in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan (21 cases).

Meanwhile, 1,214 Covid-19 patients have recovered from the disease, bringing total recoveries so far to 75,244 or 83% of total cases.

The new clusters in Kuala Lumpur are the Jalan Rusa cluster in Cheras and the Pasifik construction site cluster in Lembah Pantai.

The new additions pushed Malaysia's to-date confirmed coronavirus cases to 89,133.

The closure will be until Dec 21.