KUALA LUMPUR: Patients who recovered from Covid-19 outnumbered new infections recorded on Monday.

Malaysia reported 23,100 new cases yesterday, and on the same day, 30,624 patients recovered from Covid-19 infections.

Most of the new cases reported were mild infections, with Category Two infections making up 14,610 cases, followed by Category One (8,304 cases), Category Three (96 cases), Category Five (51 cases) and Category Four (39 cases).

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said, majority of the severe infections reported on Monday involved those who have not taken their booster shots.  

Based on vaccination status, the 186 severe cases (Categories Three, Four and Five) yesterday comprised vaccinated individuals without booster shots (84 cases), individuals who have received booster shots (63 cases) and unvaccinated individuals as well as those who have not completed vaccinations (39 cases).

Dr Noor Hisham said, 82 cases were also aged 60 and above, while 84 cases had comorbidities and two cases were pregnant mothers.

In terms of hospitalisation, Dr Noor Hisham said a total 1,555 cases were admitted to hospitals on Monday. This, he said, included 963 from Categories One and Two and another 592 cases from Categories Three, Four and Five.

Dr Noor Hisham said, 361 Covid-19 patients are currently being treated at Intensive Care Units (ICU), including 193 cases on ventilator support.

As of Monday, bed occupancy rates at ICU wards in eight states surpassed 50 per cent, with Kelantan having the highest utilisation of critical care beds at 70 per cent.

Closely trailing Kelantan was Putrajaya (67 per cent), followed by Kuala Lumpur (65 per cent), Johor (63 per cent), Melaka (61 per cent), Perak (58 per cent), Perlis (55 per cent) and Sabah (53 per cent).

As for non-ICU beds, Selangor recorded the highest utilisation rate (106 per cent), followed by Kuala Lumpur and Perak (91 per cent), Kelantan (87 per cent), Putrajaya (84 per cent), Perlis (78 per cent), Pahang (69 per cent), Johor (68 per cent), Terengganu and Sabah (60 per cent), Penang (57 per cent) and Sarawak (55 per cent).

Melaka was the only state with bed occupancy at low-risk and quarantine treatment centres exceeding 50 per cent.

Meanwhile, for the third consecutive day, Perak registered the highest Covid-19 infectivity rate (Rt) in the country at 1.31. The national average stood at 1.03.

Malaysia, up to Monday, had 293,499 active cases and 480 active clusters.