Covid-19 (Dec 12): 3,490 cases, first time under 4k since May

 

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 3,490 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,691,639.

The fresh infections today is the lowest since May 4.

Meanwhile, the R-naught value or infectivity rate continues to hover at around 0.97. 

The value must be kept under 1.0 to prevent exponential growth in new Covid-19 cases.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions of confirmed Covid-19 patients in the last seven days has declined by 7.3 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, bucking the national trend, hospital admissions of confirmed Covid-19 patients in Negeri Sembilan rose by 24.4 percent during the same period.

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 (Dec 11), where 4,626 new cases were reported, is as follows:

Selangor (1,227)
Johor (480)
Kelantan (386)
Kuala Lumpur (349)
Penang (345)
Pahang (326)
Kedah (308)
Sabah (287)
Perak (207)
Malacca (202)
Terengganu (180)
Negeri Sembilan (161)
Sarawak (74)
Perlis (39)
Putrajaya (29)
Labuan (26)

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