PETALING JAYA: The number of daily fatalities from Covid-19 reached a new record high with 360 deaths, bringing the toll to 10,749 since the outbreak began.

       The previous record was 257 deaths recorded on Aug 4. The number of deaths the day before yesterday was 210.

       Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said out of the total deaths recorded yesterday, 85 were brought-in-dead while the remaining 275 died at the hospital.

       Most of the deaths were in the Klang Valley with 221 in Selangor and 41 in Kuala Lumpur, as well as 20 in Melaka, 17 in Perak, 15 in Penang and 14 in Johor.

       Dr Noor Hisham said there were a total of 18,688 cases yesterday, bringing the cumulative number to 1,262,540.

       Out of the new infections, 1,933 involved clusters, 10,339 were from close contacts, 10 from overseas and 6,406 were sporadic cases.

       Of this, 401 cases (2.1%) were in the more serious Categories Three, Four and Five.

       “The remaining 18,287 cases (97.9%) are in Categories One and Two.

       “This is based on the clinical conditions of the cases,” he said in a statement.

       Dr Noor Hisham said out of the total number of cases, only 4,460 cases (23.9%) had a vaccination history.

       He said for those who were asymptomatic and exhibiting mild symptoms, a total of 1,146 vaccinated individuals were in Category One while 3,244 immunised people were in Category Two.

       Under Category Three for patients with pneumonia, 51 had been vaccinated while for Category Four, which includes patients with pneumonia requiring oxygen, 14 had a history of vaccination.

       In Category Five, which is the most severe category, five had been vaccinated.

       There were also 17,055 recoveries, which means 1,026,398 people have recovered from the disease.

       Currently, there are 1,095 patients in intensive care units with 571 of them requiring ventilator support.

       Dr Noor Hisham also said there were 39 new clusters, of which 18 stemmed from workplaces, 15 were in the community, two each from detention centres and high risk groups, and one each involving a religious activity and a higher educational institution.

       “Based on the latest data, the RT for Malaysia stands at 1.08,” he said, referring to the national infectivity rate.

       In a separate statement, Dr Noor Hisham said the ministry found another three cases of Covid-19, each having high infectivity rate, linked to the recent special Parliament sitting, bringing the total number of cases there to 88.“The Institute of Medical Research is carrying out whole genomic sequencing and is still waiting for the final results.

       “All these cases have mild symptoms and had been fully vaccinated prior to being infected,” he added.