Health DG: Almost all new Covid-19 cases under categories 1, 2
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 14,944 new Covid-19 cases were reported yesterday, with 99.56 per cent, or 14,878, of the cases in Categories 1 and 2, bringing the cumulative number of cases in the country to 4,307,529.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in a statement yesterday, said the remaining 66 cases reported yesterday were in Categories 3, 4 and 5.
“Of the 66 cases in Categories 3, 4 and 5 reported (yesterday), 11 cases involved those who had not been vaccinated or had not been fully vaccinated; 35 cases were those who had received two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, but had not received the booster dose, and 20 cases had received the booster dose,” he said.
He said a total of 507 cases reported yesterday involved hospital admission, with 211 cases (41.6 per cent) were in Categories 3, 4 and 5; while the remaining 296 cases (58.4 per cent) comprised those in Categories 1 and 2.
On the recovery cases, there were 14,045 cases yesterday, bringing the cumulative number of Covid-19 recovery cases to 4,113,831.
On the use of health facilities, specifically for Covid-19 cases, Dr Noor Hisham said only Selangor recorded a more than 50 per cent usage of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds yesterday, which was 56 per cent.
For bed usage at the Covid19 Low Risk Quarantine and Treatment Centre (PKRC), no state recorded more than 50 per cent.
On the infectivity rate (Rt) value for yesterday, it was 0.84 nationwide, with Selangor still recording the highest rate of 0.96 and Kelantan, the lowest rate with 0.65.