4 fully vaccinated among 12,993 deaths, says health DG

 

Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah says that among the 12,993 Covid-19 deaths recorded to date, 80 had been partially vaccinated and four had been fully vaccinated.

PETALING JAYA: A clinical audit data analysis on local Covid-19 fatalities shows that there have been four deaths involving fully vaccinated individuals, says health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

Those who received only one dose accounted for 80 deaths.

“Our recent clinical audit data analysis on the ‘breakthrough deaths’ showed that among the overall 12,993 deaths recorded, 80 cases had been partially vaccinated (0.6%) and four cases had full vaccination (0.03%),” he said on Twitter.

Yesterday, the health ministry reported 19,631 new Covid-19 cases and 293 deaths, with 44 of the victims brought in dead.

Noor Hisham said as of Monday, Malaysia’s Covid-19 infectivity rate was at 1.05.

He also revealed that the Institute for Medical Research had detected 43 cases involving the Delta variant.

This brings the total number of infections involving variants of concern in Malaysia to 690. - FMT