NEW Covid-19 cases increased by 27.9% from July 3-9 compared with the week before, health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said. 

He said 21,355 cases were reported during that week as opposed to 16,694 from June 26 to July 2. 

“Recoveries during the July 3-9 week also went up by 14.6% from 14,293 to 16,379 cases,” he said in a statement on the country’s latest Covid-19 situation today. 

Noor Hisham said this brought the cumulative number of cases to 4.6 million and recoveries to 4.5 million.

On Covid-19-related deaths, he said there was a 46.2% increase from 26 fatalities to 38 last week, taking the total number of deaths in the country so far to 35,809. 

Noor Hisham said the average daily active cases for last week was 32,145, an increase of 11% compared with the previous week.

He said the number of Covid-19 hospitalisations per 100,000 population also increased by 15% last week, with category 1 and 2 patients up by 14%, and category 3, 4 and 5 patients by 17%.

“As for the daily active Covid-19 case trend, monitored virtually by the virtual Covid-19 assessment centre last week, it increased 23.4% compared with the end of the previous week (from 43,203 cases to 53,306),” he said.

He said the infectivity rate also showed an increase of 4.8% last week compared with the week before. 

To date, there are 13 active Covid-19 clusters being monitored, he added. – Bernama, July 11, 2022.