MoH: Covid-19 admissions rise after spike in infectivity rate during Aidilfitri week
KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Health (MoH) announced yesterday an increase in admi ance into public health facilities due to Covid-19, as the country’s infectivity rate (Rt) sharply rose during the Aidilfitri celebrations.
According to Health DirectorGeneral Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, authorities saw a 38 per cent increase in admissions to hospitals and low-risk quarantine and treatment centres (PKRC) per 10,000 population in the week of Aidilfitri.
In comparison, the week before had seen a decline of 27 per cent.
Admissions into public hospitals have also doubled, he said.
The same statement also noted an increase of Covid19 patients reporting to Covid-19 Assessment Centres (CAC) that week by 87.4 per cent, with the number 1of new cases under surveillance at home spiking by 153.4 per cent.
This comes as the Rt spiked by 70.2 per cent from 0.57 to 0.97 that same week.
The number of Covid-19 patients in the week had more than doubled by 119.2 per cent from 8,732 cases to 19,137, with local infections making up the bulk of the cases.
Deaths also saw a slight increase of 3.1 per cent – one case higher than the previous week.
The total of non-severe cases – Category 1 and 2 – also doubled and is now two per every 100,000 population. The same applied to Categories 3, 4 and 5.
However, the use of beds in the intensive care unit (ICU), along with the use of ventilators dropped by 10 per cent, while those in non-critical units increased by 18 per cent.
Admission to the Covid-19 treatment centres (PKRC) also doubled.
The recovery rate, however, slowed down by 59.2 per cent, from 30,930 cases in the preceding week to 12,618 cases.