KUALA LUMPUR, March 31 (NNN-Bernama) — The number of Malaysia’s daily new COVID-19 cases continue to record below 20,000 for four consecutive days with 15,941 cases reported Wednesday, bringing the cumulative number of the cases in the country to 4,183,359.
Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the number of daily cases reported last Sunday was 16,863, followed by 13,336 cases the following day and 15,215 cases on Tuesday.
Of the total new cases recorded Wednesday, he said 7,474 cases were in category one, category two (8,359 cases), category three (50 cases), category four (26 cases) and category five with 32 cases.
“Of the 108 COVID-19 cases in category three, four and five reported yesterday, 26 cases were not vaccinated or not completely vaccinated, 45 cases had received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine but had not received the booster dose, while 37 cases had received the booster dose,” he said in a statement Thursday.
Categories one and two refer to COVID-19 patients with no or mild symptoms while category three is patients with pneumonia, category four needs oxygen assistance and category five requires respiratory assistance.
Dr Noor Hisham said a total of 21,186 COVID-19 recovery cases were reported Wednesday, bringing the total of recoveries from COVID-19 in the country to 3,941,829 cases.
He added, of the total new cases, 275 cases required treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), while 168 cases required respiratory assistance.
He also said a total of 845 COVID-19 cases were admitted to hospital Wednesday, with 366 cases in category three, four and five, while the rest were in category one and two.
— NNN-BERNAMA