Covid-19 (Nov 1): 4,626 new cases, lowest in 4 months

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today reported 4,626 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,476,268.

The new case count today is the lowest in 133 days, since June 21.

Based on the R-naught value (0.95 at national level), new case count throughout the country is generally decreasing over the past 14 days, except in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 9.1 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Terengganu (+38.7 percent), Pahang (+19.8 percent), Kedah (+19.3 percent) and Sabah (+18.0 percent).

Beginning Oct 9, the Health Ministry will only publish today's breakdown of new cases by states after midnight on its CovidNow portal.

The breakdown by states for yesterday (Oct 31), where 4,979 new cases were reported, is as follow:

Selangor (1,128)
Sarawak (616)
Sabah (447)
Kedah (371)
Kelantan (370)
Johor (363)
Terengganu (277)
Pahang (256)
Penang (255)
Malacca (225)
Perak (224)
Kuala Lumpur (215)
Negeri Sembilan (175)
Putrajaya (33)
Perlis (16)
Labuan (8)

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