KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Only 1.5% or 179 of the 11,889 new Covid-19 cases reported as of Friday noon (Oct 1) were from categories three, four and five.
Health director-general, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the remaining 11,710 cases or 98.5% comprised those in category one, which is asymptomatic, and category two (mild symptoms).
Category three are those with lung infection, four require oxygen assistance and five need to be on a ventilator.
"From the total new cases, 11,875 cases involved domestic transmission comprising 11,000 Malaysians and 875 foreigners while 14 cases were imported (six locals and eight foreigners),” he said in a statement on the development of Covid-19 today.
He said there were 15,891 recovery cases today and the total recoveries in the country is now at 2,070,715 or 91.7% from the overall Covid-19 cases.
Dr Noor Hisham also said 904 cases are being treated at intensive care unit (ICU) with 850 confirmed Covid-19 cases while another 54 were suspected or probable cases under investigation.
A total of 492 cases required respiratory assistance involving 380 confirmed cases while 112 were suspected or probable cases under investigation.
He added that 14 new clusters were detected with seven of them involving infection at the workplace while six involved transmission in the community and one religious cluster.
Meanwhile, he said the Covid-19 infectivity rate or R-naught (Rt) according to the daily cases yesterday was 0.90 for the whole country.
"Putrajaya recorded the highest Rt at 1.02 while all other states recorded Rt below 1.0 and Labuan has 0 value,” he said.
Dr Noor Hisham said the death data would be uploaded and displayed on the Github site and CovidNow website at https://covidnow.moh.gov.my at midnight. - Bernama
