Covid-19 numbers up across the board

KUALA LUMPUR: New Covid-19 cases increased by 27.9% from July 3 to 9 compared with the week before, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.The Health director-general said 21,355 cases were reported during that week as opposed to 16,694 cases from June 26 to July 2.

“Recoveries also went up by 14.6% from 14,293 cases to 16,379 cases,” he said in a statement.

Dr Noor Hisham said the cumulative number of cases in the country now stood at 4,592,710 with the number of recoveries at 4,521,579.

On Covid-19-related deaths, he said there was a 46.2% increase from 26 fatalities to 38 last week, bringing the total number of deaths to 35,809 so far.

According to Bernama, Dr Noor Hisham said the average daily active cases for last week was 32,145, an increase of 11%.

He added that the number of Covid-19 admissions to public hospitals per 100,000 population also went up by 15% last week with Categories One and Two up by 14%, and Categories Three, Four and Five by 17%.

“As for the daily active case trend, monitored virtually by the Virtual Covid-19 Assessment Centre, it increased by 23.4% from 43,203 cases to 53,306 cases,” he said.

The infectivity rate also showed an increase of 4.8% last week.

There are 13 active clusters currently being monitored.