New Covid cases, deaths show uptrend last week - Noor Hisham
Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the total, local cases increased by 13.5 percent from 26,317 to 29,858, while imported cases dropped 26.3 percent from 38 to 28...
The number of new Covid-19 cases in Malaysia has shown an increase of 13.5 percent to 29,886 in the 29th epidemiological week (ME 29/2022) from July 17 to 23, from 26,335 the previous week.
Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the total, local cases increased by 13.5 percent from 26,317 to 29,858, while imported cases dropped 26.3 percent from 38 to 28.
“The number of recovered cases in ME 29 also increased by 18.9 percent from 19,138 to 22,757 cases,” he said in a statement today.
According to Noor Hisham (above), the number of deaths in ME 29 also showed an increase of 61.5 percent, recording 63 cases from 39 the previous week.
He said the admission of Covid-19 patients into public hospitals per 100,000 population had increased by 18.3 percent, with the number of patients in categories 1 and 2 showing an increase of 12.5 percent, while those in categories 3, 4, and 5, increased by 25 percent.
Apart from that, he said the trend of daily Covid-19 active cases monitored virtually by Covid-19 Assessment Centres (CAC) dropped 1.7 percent at the end of ME 29 to 70,140 cases from 71,326 previously.
He said there were 15 active Covid-19 clusters in the country with the national Rt value being static at 1.10 during ME 29.
Meanwhile, he said from influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infection (Sari) surveillance, positive ILI sample rates for Covid-19 dropped 0.9 percent.
“The positive ILI sample rates for Covid-19 had dropped to 11.4 percent from 11.5 percent in ME 29, while the positive rate of the Sari samples remained at zero,” he said.
- Bernama
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