Selangor Journal
Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah during a daily press conference on the national Covid-19 update at the Health Ministry, Putrajaya, on January 6, 2020. — Picture by BERNAMA

Covid-19: 1.5 per cent of 6,630 new cases in Categories Three, Four, and Five — Health D-G

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — About 1.5 per cent or 101 cases out of the 6,630 new COVID-19 cases reported in the country as of noon yesterday involved individuals in categories three, four and five, according to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah

Category three refers to individuals with pneumonia, with category four requiring oxygen assistance and category five requiring respiratory assistance.

Dr Noor Hisham said the remaining 6,529 cases or 98.5 per cent were in categories one and two, namely having no symptoms or only mild ones.

“Of the total new cases, 6,615 cases involve domestic transmission while 15 cases were import cases,” he said in a statement today.

In the meantime, he said 7,630 recoveries were also reported today, bringing the total number of those recovered from the outbreak to 2,311,213.

According to Dr Noor Hisham, 653 cases were being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with 322 of them requiring respiratory assistance.

He said 12 new clusters were also identified, with six involving the workplace; education (three); community (two); and religious (one)

Meanwhile, a three-year-old local girl was detected as the index case of the Jalan Enam Kampung Bahru cluster in Sepang when she tested positive on Oct 11.

“This cluster involves students at an education centre located at Jalan 6, Kampung Bahru Lanjut, Sepang. Individuals began to show symptoms on Oct 7, and now, there are 14 individuals who have been found infected from 27 screenings conducted,” he said.

For the Jalan Dataran Wangsa cluster, he said a four-year-old girl was identified as the index case after being reported positive on Oct 16 as a result of symptomatic individual screening.

The cases started occurring on Oct 13, and screenings conducted on 50 individuals involving students and staff of the education centre at Jalan Dataran Wangsa 1, Wangsa Melawati, Titiwangsa, detected 11 positive cases.

Details on the current COVID-19 situation and infections in Malaysia are uploaded to the website at https://covidnow.moh.gov.my and the data is updated at midnight each day.

— BERNAMA

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