Over 25 per cent of deaths today were brought-in-dead cases

 

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KUALA LUMPUR: Over a quarter of the Covid-19 fatalities reported over the past 24 hours were brought-in-dead (BID) cases.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of 60 out of the 233 victims who succumbed to the coronavirus today were BID cases.

Selangor accounted for 101 deaths, followed by Kuala Lumpur (31), Johor (23), Sabah (17), Perak (16), Penang (15), Negri Sembilan (11), Kedah (nine), Terengganu (four), and three deaths each in Kelantan and Pahang.

Dr Noor Hisham said a vast portion of individuals who tested positive for the virus contracted infections in Category One or Category Two (23,133 cases or 98.2 per cent).

Only 431 cases (1.8 per cent) of the new cases recorded today fell under Category Three, Four and Five infections that required hospitalisation.

Of the 23,564 cases reported today, Dr Noor Hisham said 19,362 of them (82.2 per cent) were either unvaccinated or have not completed their two doses. - NST