Covid-19 (Nov 18): 660 new cases, a quarter related to prisons

 

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 660 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths as of noon today. 

The number of new cases in the Klang Valley had tapered down to a third of the number reported yesterday. 

Sabah continued to report the highest number of new cases (58.6 percent) followed by the Klang Valley (26.2 percent) and Negeri Sembilan (4.7 percent).

According to health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, a quarter of all new cases involved detention centres or prisons. PTS Tawau, involving a detention centre in Tawau, Sabah, was the cluster which most of the new cases were attributed to.

In Peninsular Malaysia, the clusters with the newest cases were the Teratai cluster (18 new cases) followed by Hentian (16).

The Teratai cluster involved a glove factory in the Kapar district, Selangor. The Hentian cluster referred to a cluster which originated from the Kajang bus station in Selangor. The Hentian cluster is the second-largest cluster in the Klang Valley (831 cumulative cases). 

Leading indicators: 

• Active cases - 12,814 ↓ (26 fewer than the previous day)

• Intensive care - 103 ↓ (1 less than the previous day)

• Intubated patients - 41 ↑ (1 more than the previous day)

• Deaths - 4

Two deaths were reported in Perak and Sabah respectively, bringing the total national death toll to 322.

Patient 25,714 and Patient 45,075 were both female Malaysian citizens with a history of other illnesses. They were pronounced dead at the Raja Pemaisuri Bainun Hospital in Ipoh, Perak.

The case number for patient 25,714 indicated that she had been diagnosed in the third week of October.

Patient 49,017 was a female foreigner while Patient 49,018 is a male Malaysian citizen. Both died at the Duchess of Kent Hospital in Sandakan, Sabah.

Their case numbers suggested that they were diagnosed sometime over the past 24 hours.

Of the 660 new cases, four were imported cases. 

The cumulative Covid-19 death toll for Sabah has reached 182 or 56.52 percent of the national total. 

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- Mkini