KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 (NNN-Bernama) — The number of Malaysia’s new COVID-19 cases in the 28th epidemiological week (ME 28/2022), from July 10 to 16, has increased by 23.4 per cent to 26,355, compared with 21,355 reported in the previous week.
Health director-general, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, said local COVID-19 cases in ME 28 also jumped by 23.4 per cent to 26,317 cases, from 21,325 cases reported in the previous week, while imported cases increased by 26.6 per cent to 38 cases, compared with 30 cases recorded in the previous week.
“The number of recovered cases in ME 28 has increased by 16.8 per cent to 19,138 cases, from 16,379 cases recorded in ME 27,” he said in a statement Monday.
According to Dr Noor Hisham, the number of deaths in ME 28 also showed an increase of 2.6 per cent (38 to 39 cases), while the average daily active cases for ME 28 was 38,110 which is an increase of 18.6 per cent compared with the previous week.
He said cumulative COVID-19 cases nationwide until July 16 were at 4,619,045; cumulative recoveries were 4,540,717 and cumulative deaths were 35,848.
Dr Noor Hisham said that overall, the admission of COVID-19 patients into health facilities per 100,000 population has increased by nine per cent compared with previous week.
He said that there was a 33 per ent increase in the number of COVID-19 patient admissions to public hospitals per 100,000 population, with category one and two patients rising by 33 per cent while category three, four and five patients admissions also increased by 33 per cent.
