Covid-19: 4,006 new cases yesterday, says health DG

25 Apr 2022 • 12:39 PM MYT
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Covid-19: 4,006 new cases yesterday, says health DG

KUALA LUMPUR – A total of 4,006 new Covid-19 cases were recorded yesterday, with 32.15% of them in Category 1 and 67.25% in Category 2, said Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

In his daily statement on Covid-19 cases, he said, of the total, 12 cases or 0.30% were in Category 3, while Categories 4 and 5 each recorded six cases or 0.15% (these three categories involve more severe cases).

Of the total 24 cases in the higher categories, eight cases were not vaccinated or had not been fully vaccinated, nine were fully vaccinated but had not received the booster dose while seven had received the booster dose. Nine of the 24 cases were aged 60 years and above while 12 had comorbidities.

The new cases brings the case tally in the country to 4,431,073 while one new cluster was reported yesterday, bringing the total number of active clusters to 97.

A total of 165 cases were admitted to hospitals yesterday with 91 of them in Categories 1 and 2 and 74 in Categories 3, 4 and 5.

The number of recovered cases yesterday was 10,223, taking cumulative recovered cases in the country to 4,320,822.

The DG said Malaysia’s Covid-19 infectivity rate (Rt value) yesterday was 0.77 with Putrajaya recording the highest rate of 1.15. – Bernama, April 25, 2022