KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 — Malaysia recorded new Covid-19 cases above the 10,000 mark for three consecutive days with 13,944 cases reported as of noon today compared with 11,034 cases yesterday, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said the latest development brought the cumulative Covid-19 cases to 2,939,198. The last time Malaysia recorded more than 13,000 cases was on September 26, last year (13,104).
Dr Noor Hisham, via his official Twitter account, said that 13,871 new cases today (99.48 per cent) were in categories one and two while 73 cases (0.52 per cent) in categories three, four and five.
He added that category one recorded 3,942 cases or 28.27 per cent; category two (9,929 cases or 71.21 per cent); category three (54 cases or 0.39 per cent); category four (11 cases or 0.08 per cent) and category five (eight cases or 0.05 per cent).
Meanwhile, he said the country’s infectivity rate (Rt) was at 1.32, compared with 1.27 yesterday with Sabah and Perlis recording the highest Rt value of 1.54 followed by Sarawak (1.48) and Terengganu (1.36).
Meanwhile, Dr Noor Hisham said in a statement that the number of new Covid-19 cases reported for the fifth epidemiological week (ME5/2022) from January 30 to February 5 increased by 34.7 per cent to 43,062 cases, compared to 31,980 the previous week.
He said the number of fatalities showed a decline of 8.1 per cent while the number of recoveries showed an increase of 15.6 per cent.
Of the 13,944 new cases, 153 were imported and 13,791 were local transmissions, while 138 patients are being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), with 71 requiring respiratory assistance, he said.
Dr Noor Hisham said a total of 5,421 recovery cases were reported today, bringing the cumulative number of recoveries so far to 2,824,071.
He added that 17 new clusters were recorded with 375 clusters still active so far.
Other detailed information on the current situation of Covid-19 infection and transmission in Malaysia will be uploaded on the CovidNOW website at https://covidnow.moh.gov.my and data is updated at midnight daily.
— Bernama
