KUALA LUMPUR – New Covid-19 cases in the country dropped by 33.7% to 7,249 cases in the 50th epidemiological week (ME 50/2022) from December 11 to 17, compared with 10,937 cases the previous week.
Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a statement today that local cases dropped by 33.8% from 10,923 to 7,232 cases in ME50/2022 while imported cases rose by 21.4% from 14 to 17 cases.
He said the number of recoveries during the same week was also lower by 30.3% from 14,816 to 10,330 cases while death cases went up by 9.3% from 43 to 47 cases.
According to him, there were cumulatively 5,017,016 new cases of Covid-19 recorded from ME 4/2020 which was on January 25, 2020 to December 17, 2022, while recoveries logged for the same period were 4,964,534 cases with 36,800 deaths.
Dr Noor Hisham also informed that the cumulative number of clusters was 7,162 with 21 clusters still active.
On admissions to hospitals and low-risk Covid-19 treatment centres for every 100,000 people, Dr Noor Hisham said overall, it dropped by 21.6%.
He said admissions to public hospitals for category one (asymptomatic) and category two (with symptoms) saw a decline of 28.6% while for category three (with lung infection), four (requiring oxygen aid) and five (on ventilator) dropped by 31%. – Bernama, December 19, 2022
