PUTRAJAYA: Daily Covid-19 recoveries in the country have outnumbered the total number of new infections for the 20th straight day straight as Malaysia’s pandemic situation continues to show improvement.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 13,405 people were discharged while 9,380 new cases were recorded in the same 24-hour span up to noon on Wednesday (Oct 6).
Cumulatively, Malaysia has had 2,303,837 Covid-19 cases and 2,144,681 recoveries since the pandemic began.
The recovery rate is at 93.1% of all cases.
“Of the 9,380 new cases on Wednesday, 98% of them are either mild or asymptomatic cases. Another 181 cases (1.9%) are Category 3, 4 and 5 cases,” Dr Noor Hisham said in his daily Covid-19 statement.
Four states reported four-digit case increases - Sarawak with 1,503 cases, Kelantan with 1,170, Selangor with 1,116 and Johor with 1,105.
The number of patients in intensive care units (ICU) is now at 851.
Dr Noor Hisham said of the 851 patients in ICU, 800 are confirmed Covid-19 cases while the others are suspected cases.
There are 447 patients on ventilator support.
Nationwide, the ICU utilisation rate is now at 63%.
Malaysia’s infectivity rate is at an Rt level of 0.87, as of Tuesday (Oct 5).
Only Perlis (Rt 1.03) and Melaka (Rt 1.00) have Rt levels above 1.
The Health Ministry also identified 11 new infection clusters nationwide.
This brings the current total of active ones to 932.
According to the ministry’s CovidNow website, active cases have gone down to around 130,000.
Of that, more than 80% are people with mild or asymptomatic infections who are undergoing home quarantine.
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