Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said on Wednesday that 70 per cent of hospital beds prepared for Covid-19 patients are currently being utilised — which is a 2.7 per cent increase from Tuesday.
This is the first time that the number of daily cases has breached the 17,000-mark since September 17, 2021.However, the percentage of Covid-19 patients under Categories 3, 4, and 5 — meaning they have a lung infection, need oxygen or worse — remained relatively low. Only 0.5 per cent of the 83,071 active Covid-19 cases today were in those higher categories, while 99.5 per cent were in Categories 1 and 2.
Category 1 patients are those who don’t have any Covid-19 symptoms, while Category 2 encompasses those with less dangerous symptoms such as a flu, sore throat, tiredness and fever. Yesterday, 0.52 per cent were in Categories 3, 4 and 5; while 99.48 per cent were in Categories 1 and 2. MALAY MAIL
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