The number includes four new clusters in Selangor, Sabah, Putrajaya, and Kedah.
Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah noted that this was the second-highest increase in the number of cases in a single day, after the 277 cases recorded on June 4 amid the outbreak at the Bukit Jalil immigration detention depot at the time.
The third-highest was 235 cases in a day, he said, which was recorded on March 26 when Malaysia was under the first phase of the movement control order (MCO).
“If you look at the latest increase in the number of cases, it is concentrated in the two states of Sabah and Kedah.
However, we are now seeing new cases and clusters detected in other states,” Noor Hisham told a press conference in Putrajaya today.
He said the ministry welcomed Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s announcement earlier today that inter-district travel in Sabah will be banned beginning Oct 3 and hoped that would help contain the spread of Covid-19 in the state.
“At the same time, the Health Ministry and related agencies will try their best to control the spread of Covid-19 in the whole of Malaysia. The cooperation of all parties is much, much needed,” he said.
