Covid-19: Health DG says 99.27% of new cases in Categories One and Two

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KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 22,326 cases, or 99.27%, of the 22,491 new Covid-19 infections reported on Wednesday (March 23) involved Categories One and Two, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

The Health director-general said only 165 cases, or 0.73%, reported on Wednesday were in Categories Three, Four and Five."A total of 71 cases, or 0.31%, were in Category Three, 44 cases in Category Four and 50 cases in Category Five," he said in a statement Thursday .

According to Dr Noor Hisham, no new Covid-19 clusters were reported Wednesday while 273 clusters were still active to date. He said the infectivity rate in the country was at 0.90 on Wednesday, with Selangor recording the highest value at 1.03 while the lowest value was recorded in Sabah at 0.64. He said five states showed more than 50% usage of intensive care unit beds with the highest in Putrajaya at 100%, followed by Kuala Lumpur , Johor , Selangor and Kelantan . - Bernama

 

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