862 Covid-19 cases, 3 deaths
It is the third highest number of infections in a day since the pandemic first hit the country.
This is the fourth time the number of daily cases has exceeded 800. The record high was 871 cases reported over the weekend.
At a press conference today, health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the 862 new cases brought the total in the country to 22,225.
The three new deaths, meanwhile, bring the toll to 193.
Noor Hisham said there were 634 recoveries, bringing the total number of those discharged to 14,351.
The three who died today were Sabahans, aged between 59 and 90. The trio had a history of chronic illness.
Noor Hisham said there were 7,681 active cases in the country, with 95 being treated in the ICU and 29 needing respiratory assistance.
A total of 860 out of the 862 cases are local transmissions; the remaining two are imported cases from Egypt and Indonesia.
Out of the 860 local transmissions, four involve people who returned from Sabah, pushing the total number of cases with travel history to Sabah since Sept 20 to 452.
Noor Hisham also said 235, or 27.3% of total cases were from prison clusters such as the Kepayan and Tembok clusters.
Sabah again recorded the highest increase in cases today with 673 infections, which is 78.1% of total cases.
Noor Hisham said this increase was due to a higher number of RT-PCR tests being done in Sabah on top of more test samples being sent to the peninsula for processing.
Selangor recorded the second highest number of cases again today with 132 followed by Kedah with 17.
He said 84 of the 132 cases in Selangor were from existing clusters. Eight patients out of this 84 had travel history to Sabah. Noor Hisham said the surge in cases was due to high public movement in the state.
The bulk of these cases came from existing clusters, while positive cases were also detected in close-contact Covid-19 screenings, and other types of screenings as well.
Perak reported nine cases and Penang reported eight. Meanwhile, Labuan, Negeri Sembilan and Kuala Lumpur reported six cases each, while Putrajaya, Johor and Kelantan had one case each.
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