A total of 3,626 Covid-19 cases were reported during the 47th epidemiology week (ME 47/2023) from Nov 19 to 25, an increase of 57.3 percent compared to the 2,305 cases recorded from the previous week.
Health director-general Dr Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan said 48 percent of the cases involved those between the ages of 20 and 40, with more than 98 percent of them only having mild symptoms.
He said the weekly Covid-19 cases exceeded 1,000 cases every week from week ME 41/2023 to ME 47/2023 with an increased rate of between 7.1 and 57.3 percent.
Eight Covid-19 clusters are still active with 121 cases involved, he added.
“The cumulative number of clusters reported up to ME 47/2023 is 7,248. The majority of clusters reported are education clusters,” he said in a statement today.
Radzi said the admission rate of Covid-19 patients increased to 2.9 per 100,000 population in ME 47/2023 compared to the previous week, with the occupancy of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds at 0.4 percent and non-critical Covid-19 beds at 0.9 percent, while Covid-19 patients requiring ventilators remained at 0.2 percent.
Although there is an increase in Covid-19 cases, he said the situation is under control and does not burden existing health facilities.
New variants
According to him, four new Omicron variants were reported in ME 47/2023, all of which were variants of concern (VOC).
He said the cumulative number of cases infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus categorised as VOC and variant of interest (VOI) was 28,102 cases with 27,297 cases being VOC and 805 VOI cases.
Radzi said two cases of the new Omicron variant BA.2.86 had been reported in Malaysia with both cases being treated as outpatients and in a stable condition.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently reported an increase in the BA.2.86 variant, with the first reported on July 24 and classified as VOI.
- Bernama
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