KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 13,627 new Covid-19 cases were recorded from Sept 11 to 17 compared to 14,072 cases in the previous week, says Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

He said the numbers showed a 3.2% drop in new cases.

“The average daily active cases for the same period was 26,378, which decreased by 4.1% compared to the week before,” he said yesterday.

Dr Noor Hisham said there were 31 deaths between Sept 11 to 17 – a decrease of 8.8% compared to 34 cases the week earlier.

On the number of recoveries, he said it was also down by 16% with 14,513 cases for the same period compared to 17,286 cases the previous week.

On admission of Covid-19 patients in public hospitals for every 100,000 population, Dr Noor Hisham said there was a 6.7% drop for category 1 and 2 patients between Sept 11 and 17 while there was no change in category 3, 4 and 5 patients.

“The percentage of Covid-19 bed occupancy showed a decrease of one percent for non-critical beds while beds in intensive care unit (ICU) and low-risk Covid-19 treatment centres dropped by two percent respectively.

“There was no change to the percentage of Covid-19 patients on ventilator as well,” he said as reported by Bernama.

He added that the number of positive cases was also lower nationwide based on monitoring by the Covid-19 Assessment Centre (CAC).

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