Covid: 99 Per Cent Of New Cases In Malaysia Under Category One And Two

KUALA LUMPUR, April 9 (Bernama) -- Malaysia recorded a total of 14,944 new COVID-19 cases Friday with 99.56 per cent or 14,878 of the cases in category one and two, bringing the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases in the country to 4,307,529. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in a statement said the remaining 66 cases reported Friday were in category three, four and five. “Of the 66 cases in category three, four and five reported (Friday), 11 cases involved those who had not been vaccinated or had not been fully vaccinated; 35 cases were those who have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, but have not received the booster dose, and 20 cases have received the booster dose,” he said. He said a total of 507 cases reported Friday involved hospital admission, with 211 cases (41.6 per cent) were in category three, four and five; while the remaining 296 cases (58.4 per cent) comprised those in category one and two. On the recovery cases, there were 14,045 cases Friday, 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 state recorded a more than 50 per cent usage of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds Friday, which was 56 per cent. For bed usage at the COVID-19 Low Risk Quarantine and Treatment Centre (PKRC), no state recorded more than 50 per cent. On the infectivity rate or Rt value for Friday, it was 0.84 nationwide, with Selangor still recording the highest rate of 0.96 and Kelantan state, the lowest rate with 0.65. -- BERNAMA