Sarawak was a distant second with 171 clusters while Sabah had 94.

“The infections were among family members and close contacts,” he said in a statement.

He added that more than half the clusters, that is 481, were a direct result of people visiting their family members or spreading it to members of the same household.

“There are 44 clusters involving longhouse communities and 55 as a result of people participating in various festivities and gatherings.

“All this happened despite the ban on social gatherings, as well as visiting or receiving guests,” Noor Hisham said.

In light of more economic sectors reopening under the national recovery plan, he noted with concern that the seven-day average of daily cases was around 20,000 cases.

Noor Hisham reminded the public to cooperate with the health ministry’s efforts to bring down the numbers.

In general, he added that there had been a total of 2,913 clusters since phase two of the third wave (Mar 28, 2021).

Meanwhile, speaking on workplace clusters, Noor Hisham said there were 1,549, which accounted for 53.2% of the total clusters reported since the end of March.

Selangor reported the highest with 414 workplace clusters, followed by Johor (322), and Kuala Lumpur (149).

Most workplace clusters were from the manufacturing sector (780), followed by the services sector (260) and the construction sector (181).

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