KUALA LUMPUR – A total of 14,944 new Covid-19 cases were reported yesterday with 99.56% 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 today, 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 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 yesterday involved hospital admission, with 211 cases (41.6%) being in Categories 3, 4 and 5; while the remaining 296 cases (58.4%) comprised of 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 more than 50% usage of intensive care unit beds yesterday, which was at 56%.
For bed usage at the Covid-19 low risk quarantine and treatment centre, no state recorded more than 50%.
On the infectivity rate or 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. – Bernama, April 9, 2022
