THE Klang Valley accounted for the bulk of the 1,103 Covid-19 infections reported nationwide today, with 544 cases.

Sabah, on the other, reported 288 cases and four deaths.

Health Director General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Damanlela Construction Site Cluster in Kuala Lumpur was the largest contributor of cases reported in the Klang Valley, with 385 cases.

Kuala Lumpur as a whole, contribute the highest number of cases with 392, Selangor, 151, and Putrajaya, 1.

The new cases have brought the national caseload to 48,520.

Only one of the 1,103 cases reported today was imported.

Dr Noor Hisham said the lower number of cases in Sabah was due to infection prevention and control measures in the state.

“Their effectiveness is evident through the decline in positive Covid-19 cases in Sabah,” he told the daily briefing on Covid-19 in Putrajaya today.

Meanwhile, 139 of today’s cases were attributed to prison and detention centre clusters.

Health authorities also discovered one new cluster of infections.

On recoveries, 821 patients were discharged from hospital in the past 24 hours. This puts the total number of recoveries from the virus at 35,606.

Of the 12,601 people currently hospitalised for Covid-19, 102 are in intensive care, with 39 of them intubated. – November 16, 2020.