KUALA LUMPUR: The number of daily COVID-19 cases dropped today, with 10,710 reported compared to 12,528 yesterday.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah tweeted that this took the total number of infections to 916,561.

He said Selangor remained the state with the highest number of cases at 4,828, followed by Kuala Lumpur (945); Johor (808); Negeri Sembilan (771); Kedah (696) and Sabah (666).

Perak, meanwhile, reported 407 cases, followed by Pahang (369), Penang (295), Melaka (289), Sarawak (261), Kelantan (146), Terengganu (123); Putrajaya (51); Labuan (50) and Perlis (five).

-- BERNAMA