PUTRAJAYA: About 97.8% of the country’s latest Covid-19 cases were either mild and asymptomatic infections, says the Health Ministry.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the 19,733 new cases reported on Wednesday (Sept 8), 19,304 were Category 1 and 2 infections.
“Another 429 cases (2.2%) are those in Category 3, 4 and 5,” said Dr Noor Hisham in his daily Covid-19 statement.
About 91% of the new cases involved were either unvaccinated individuals (76%), or those who had not completed their vaccination dosage (15%).
“This situation clearly shows that individuals who are fully vaccinated are more protected and also less at risk of getting a severe Covid-19 infection.
“So those who have not been vaccinated are advised to quickly get jabbed to protect themselves and the people around them from the possibility of being infected with Covid-19,” said Dr Noor Hisham.
The ministry also reported 361 more Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia.
This has taken the country’s Covid-19 death toll up to 19,163.
Selangor (67 deaths) and Johor (65) reported the most number of fatalities.
Some 102 deaths have been classified as “brought-in-dead” (BID) cases.
Another 22,701 people were discharged, which means recoveries had outnumbered new cases for the eighth consecutive day.
Currently, there are 248,673 active Covid-19 cases.
Meanwhile, the Health Ministry also detected 35 new Covid-19 clusters.
This brings the number of active ones to 1,459.
Of the new clusters, 20 were workplace-related outbreaks and at least 916 confirmed cases are linked to them.
Another 11 clusters are community outbreaks, with at least 276 positive cases from them.
