Covid-19 Watch: 19,090 new infections, 0.59% in categories three, four and five, says Health DG

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia reported 19,090 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday (Feb 10), says the Health Ministry.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this brings the cumulative number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 2,975,422 cases since the pandemic began.

In a tweet on Thursday, Dr Noor Hisham said that 113, or 0.59%, of the new daily cases were in categories three four and five and required hospitalisation.

He added that the remaining 18,977 cases, or 99.41%, were in categories one and two, meaning they were asymptomatic or only had mild symptoms.

He added that a more detailed breakdown of the daily case numbers would be uploaded to the Health Ministry's CovidNow website at midnight.

10 Februari 2022, jumlah kes COVID-19 yang dilaporkan adalah 19,090 kes menjadikan jumlah kumulatif sebanyak 2,975,422 kes. Maklumat terperinci akan dimuatnaik ke laman COVIDNOW: https://t.co/aIQttvUkWX Data harian laman COVIDNOW dikemaskini sekaligus selepas tengah malam. — Noor Hisham Abdullah (@DGHisham) February 10, 2022