KUALA LUMPUR: The number of new Covid-19 cases in the first epidemiological week (ME 1/2023) from Jan 1 to 7, recorded a drop of 14.2% to 3,231 cases compared with 3,767 cases reported in the previous week.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said during that period, the number of local cases dropped by 14%, from 3,735 to 3,213 cases.
He said in a statement on Monday that the number of imported cases was also lower by 43.8%, from 32 cases to 18 cases. Dr Noor Hisham said the number of recoveries also showed a drop of 35.6%, from 5,869 to 3,781 cases recorded in the previous week.Dr Noor Hisham then said that there were 5,029,908 new cases recorded from ME 4/2020, which was from Jan 25, 2020, to Jan 7 this year, with a total of 4,981,975 recoveries and 36,874 deaths reported in the same period.
He said admissions to public hospitals for category one and category two saw a decline of 15.4 per cent while for category three , four and five dropped by 7.7%. In addition, he said that the percentage of bed occupancy, including non-critical care beds and intensive care unit beds, as well as positive Covid-19 cases monitored by the Covid-19 Assessment Centre nationwide, have also decreased. - Bernama
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