Covid-19 cases down 5.2% to 12,291 in past week
PETALING JAYA: The number of new Covid-19 cases dropped by 5.2% last week to 12,291, from the 12,963 recorded the week before, says health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. In his update for the week ending Oct 1, Noor Hisham said the number of Covid-19 patients admitted to public hospitals…
PETALING JAYA: The number of new Covid-19 cases dropped by 5.2% last week to 12,291, from the 12,963 recorded the week before, says health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
In his update for the week ending Oct 1, Noor Hisham said the number of Covid-19 patients admitted to public hospitals under Category 1 and 2 went down by 7.7% per 100,000 from the preceding week, while Category 3, 4 and 5 patients dropped by 13%.
The bed occupancy rate in low-risk quarantine and treatment centres remained unchanged from last week.
Overall bed occupancy for non-critical beds dropped by 1% while the utilisation of intensive care unit (ICU) beds was down by 3%.
Active cases decreased during the week by 2.5% to 24,713.
“Recoveries dropped by 8.4% from 13,677 cases to 12,534,” Noor Hisham said.
“The number of deaths decreased by 35% from 40 to 26, bringing the cumulative figure for fatalities to 36,374.”
He said 4,842,505 Covid-19 cases had been recorded in the country since January 2020. — Free Malaysia Today