KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 9 — The Health Ministry (MoH) recorded 17,134 new Covid-19 cases today, continuing a streak of increasing daily cases over the past week.
Today’s number is over 3,000 more than yesterday’s 13,944.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today that 70 per cent of hospital beds prepared for Covid-19 patients are currently being utilised — which is a 2.7 per cent increase from yesterday.
This is the first time that the number of daily cases has breached the 17,000-mark since September 17, 2021.
Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) utilisation went up by 1.4 per cent today, to 52.1 per cent.
However, the percentage of Covid-19 patients under Categories 3, 4, and 5 — meaning they have a lung infection, need oxygen or worse — remained relatively low.
Only 0.5 per cent (86 people) of the 83,071 active Covid-19 cases today were in those higher categories, while 99.5 per cent (17,048 people) were in Categories 1 and 2.
Category 1 patients are those who don’t have any Covid-19 symptoms, while Category 2 encompasses those with less dangerous symptoms such as a flu, sore throat, tiredness and fever.
Yesterday, 0.52 per cent were in Categories 3, 4 and 5; while 99.48 per cent were in Categories 1 and 2.
Daripada 17,134 kes harian dilaporkan pada hari ini;
— Noor Hisham Abdullah (@DGHisham) February 9, 2022
•86 kes (0.5%) kategori 3, 4 & 5;
•17,048 kes (99.5%) kategori 1 dan 2.
Kategori 1 : 4,722 kes (27.56%)
Kategori 2 : 12,326 kes (71.94%)
Kategori 3 : 58 kes (0.34%)
Kategori 4 : 24 kes (0.14%)
Kategori 5 : 4 kes (0.02%) pic.twitter.com/VoUyKb3ysv
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