Cases in the 2,000 range

KUALA LUMPUR: It took three months for the number of daily Covid-19 cases to drop to about 2,000, with 2,478 cases recorded on Monday, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pic).

The last time the daily cases recorded a figure of around 2,000 was on Jan 17 with 2,342 cases.

The highest number of daily cases during the three-month period was on March 5 with 33,406.

Of the new cases, 98.71% or 2,446 cases fell under Categories 1 and 2 while 32 cases or 1.29% were in Categories 3, 4 and 5.

“Of the 32 cases, 16 of them involved patients who were not vaccinated or had not been fully vaccinated, 10 cases involved those who had been fully vaccinated but had not received the booster dose while six others had received the booster dose.

“Eighteen of the total 32 cases are aged 60 and above while 19 have comorbidities,” the Health director-general said in his daily statement.

A total of 143 cases were admitted to hospitals with 76 of them in Categories 1 and 2 while 67 were in Categories 3, 4, and 5.

The new infections bring the cumulative total to 4,433,551, which also saw a total of 4,330,037 recoveries, including 9,215 on Monday.

Dr Noor Hisham said Malaysia’s infectivity rate was at 0.73 with Putrajaya recording the highest at 1.07.

Separately, a total of 736,114 children, aged between five and 11, or 20.7% of the population have completed their vaccination under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme For Children.

According to the CovidNow website, 1,497,935 children or 42.2% have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

For teenagers between 12 and 17, 2,888,431 or 92.8% have completed their vaccination while 2,987,570 or 96% have received at least one dose.

As for the adult population, a total of 16,014,864 or 68.1% have received the booster dose, 22,964,800 or 97.6% have completed both doses while 23,241,481 or 98.8% have received at least one dose.

On Monday, 38,691 doses of vaccine were administered, comprising 26,489 doses for the second shot, 4,524 for booster jabs and 7,678 doses for the first shot, bringing the cumulative number of doses given out under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme to 70,118,091, reported Bernama.

According to the Health Ministry’s GitHub portal, eight deaths were reported with five fatalities in Selangor, followed by Kedah with two cases and one in Melaka.