KUALA LUMPUR: The number of new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia dropped to 14,692 on Saturday (April 2) with 99.46% in Categories 1 and 2, says Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
This took the cumulative figure to 4,234,087 cases since the outbreak about two years ago.
Dr Noor Hisham said 8,557 cases or 58.24% were in Category 1 and 6,056 cases or 41.22% were in Category 2.
"There were 27 Category 3 cases, 19 Category 4 and 33 Category 5," he said in a statement on Sunday (April 3).
He also said 261 cases were still being treated in the intensive care unit (ICU), with 153 cases requiring ventilators.
A total of 663 cases were warded on Saturday, 285 of them from Categories 3 to 5.
Dr Noor Hisham said 20,383 recoveries were reported on Saturday, bringing the cumulative figure to 3,997,786.
On the use of dedicated health facilities for Covid-19 cases, he said ICU bed occupancy in Kuala Lumpur was at 67% while Selangor recorded 50% usage on Saturday.
"No states recorded usage of more than 50% for beds at Low-Risk Covid-19 Quarantine and Treatment Centres (PKRC).
"The number of patients requiring ventilators dropped to 153, for 17% usage of ventilators,” he added.
The Covid-19 infectivity rate or Rt value in the country was 0.85, with Selangor still registering the highest at 1.06, while Kelantan and Sabah had the lowest at 0.68.
Dr Noor Hisham said two new clusters were detected, bringing the number of active clusters to 190. – Bernama
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