KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 19  — The country recorded 27,808 new COVID-19 cases yesterday (Feb 18), bringing the cumulative figure to 3,166,023 cases, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

He said of the total, 27,705 cases or 99.63 per cent were in categories one and two while 103 cases or 0.37 per cent were in categories three, four and five.

“Of the total new cases, 27,689 are local transmissions while another 119 are imported cases,” he said in a statement on the development of COVID-19, today.

A total of 12,488 recovered cases were recorded, bringing the cumulative total of recoveries to 2,900,682, while the number of those in the intensive care unit (ICU) stood at 235 people with 132 of them needing respiratory assistance.

Dr Noor Hisham said 16 new clusters were detected yesterday, bringing the total active clusters to 486.

He also said that the country’s infectivity rate (Rt) stood at 1.27 with Labuan recording the highest rate at 1.99 followed by Sarawak 1.50 and Sabah 1.47.

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