MALAYSIA hit a new record high of 1,884 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours.

Director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the national caseload now stands at 56,659.

“From this new cases, only two were imported while the remaining 1,882 were locally transmitted,” he said in a press conference today.

Active cases are now 13,842, of which 115 patients are being treated in intensive care, with 48 requiring respiratory assistance.

Today’s fresh cases also surpassed the number of recoveries, at 883. Cumulative recoveries now stand at 42,480.

Two deaths were also reported, raising the national toll of fatalities to 337. The deaths were of a 80-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman, both in Sabah.

Selangor accounted for a bulk of the new cases at 1,203, followed by Sabah and Kuala Lumpur with 289 and 196 cases, respectively.

In Selangor, the bulk of cases came from the Teratai cluster at 1,067 or 76.2% of all of today’s new infections.
The Teratai cluster is linked to glove maker Top Glove Sdn Bhd’s workers’ dormitories in Klang.

The government earlier today announced that 28 Top Glove factories in Klang will be closed in stages for Covid-19 testing to be carried out, after more than 1,000 infections were reported among its workers.

The bulk of Kuala Lumpur’s cases, meanwhile, came from the Damanlela construction site cluster, at 101. – November 23, 2020.