KUALA LUMPUR, March 7 — The number of admissions of Covid-19 patients to public hospitals per 100,000 population in the ninth Epidemiological Week 2023 (ME 9/2023) compared to ME...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 7 — The number of admissions of Covid-19 patients to public hospitals per 100,000 population in the ninth Epidemiological Week 2023 compared to ME 8/2023 increased by 33 per cent for categories one to five, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
“For Covid-19 positive cases monitored by the Covid-19 Assessment Centre nationwide, it shows a decrease and a comparison of the physical CAC data reported in ME 9/2023 from the previous week shows that the number of patient arrivals to the CAC dropped by 12.2 per cent. According to Dr Noor Hisham, said the cumulative number of cases reported from January 25, 2020, to March 4, 2023, was 5,043,626 cases, while the cumulative number of recovery cases was 4,997,806.
Regarding the percentage of Covid-19 bed usage, he said, there was an increase of one per cent from ME 9/2023 to ME 8/2023 for non-critical beds, Intensive Care Unit beds remain unchanged at two per cent and the percentage of Covid-19 patients requiring respiratory assistance decreased to 0.2 per cent.
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