AS with many other groups, it has been a very challenging year for the aged care sector due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Association for Residential Aged Care Operators of Malaysia (AgeCOpe) supports the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme and calls on all stakeholders to work together to ensure frontliners and at-risk people get their jabs as soon as possible.
As at Feb 19,68.3% of the 1,043 Covid-19 deaths were among those aged 60 years or over, and the mortality rate for this group is 13.8%, or over 10 times higher than the national average of 1.2%. Patients with multiple comorbidities are more likely to succumb to the virus.