PETALING JAYA: Malaysia reported 5,516 new instances of Covid-19 on Wednesday (Oct 20), of which 98.2% are delicate and asymptomatic infections.
In his each day Covid-19 assertion, Well being director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah mentioned cumulatively, Malaysia has recorded a complete of two,407,382 instances for the reason that begin of the pandemic.
“Of the 5,516 instances reported on Wednesday, 5,414 or 98.2% are Class One and Class Two infections.
“One other 102 instances or 1.8% are Class Three, 4 and 5 infections,” mentioned Dr Noor Hisham.
There have been 14 imported instances, whereas the remainder have been native transmissions.
Of the 5,502 locally-transmitted instances, 5,267 (95.7%) are Malaysians whereas 235 (4.3%) are foreigners.
Malaysia additionally discharged 9,401 extra Covid-19 sufferers, bringing the whole recoveries to 2,297,289 – a restoration fee of 95.4%.
There are actually 669 sufferers in intensive care models (ICU) nationwide, of whom 572 are confirmed Covid-19 infections whereas 97 are suspected instances.
Some 333 sufferers are on ventilator assist.
The nation’s infectivity fee has been at an RT stage of 0.88% for the final 5 days.
An RT of lower than 1 means the an infection will not be spreading.
The Well being Ministry additionally recognized 4 new Covid-19 clusters.
Three are office outbreaks, whereas one entails an training establishment.
At the moment, there are 614 lively clusters.
