KUALA LUMPUR – A total of 6,342 new Covid-19 cases were recorded yesterday with 99.34% of them in Categories 1 and 2, said Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
Of the total, he said 42 cases or 0.66% were in Categories 2, 4 and 5 (more severe categories), with 13 of them not vaccinated or not fully vaccinated, while 14 had received two doses of Covid-19 vaccine but not booster dose whereas 15 had received booster dose.
“The additional new cases yesterday brought the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases in the country to 4,421,443. Two new clusters were reported yesterday, bringing the total number of active clusters to 100,” he said in a statement here today.
He said 234 Covid-19 cases were admitted to the hospital yesterday, of which 132 cases were in Categories 1 and 2, while the remaining 102 cases were in Categories 3, 4 and 5.
The number of recoveries yesterday also exceeded the number of new cases when 9,111 recovered cases were reported bringing the cumulative total to 4,300,558.
The national Covid-19 infectivity rate or Rt value yesterday was 0.80, with Putrajaya registering the highest at 1.04, he added. – Bernama, April 23, 2022
