KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded 7,739 new Covid-19 cases on Monday with 99.13% of them being reported in Categories One and Two, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

       Of the total, he said 67 cases or 0.87% were in Categories Three, Four and Five – with 24 cases involving unvaccinated or partially vaccinated individuals, 16 that had received two doses of the vaccine but had not received the booster dose and 27 that had received the booster dose.

       “The additional new cases brought the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases in the country to 4,333,557.

       “Two new clusters were reported, bringing the total number of active clusters to 126,” he said in a statement yesterday.

       He said 427 cases were admitted to the hospital on Monday of which 187 cases (43.8%) were in Categories Three, Four and Five, while the remaining 240 cases (56.2%) were in Categories One and Two.

       The number of recoveries on Monday also exceeded the number of new cases when 19,049 recovered cases were reported, bringing the cumulative total to 4,163,777.On the usage of health facilities dedicated for Covid-19 cases, he said bed occupancy for critical or Intensive Care Unit (ICU) cases at Putrajaya was at 100% while Selangor was at 52%.

       Bed usage at the Low Risk Covid-19 Quarantine and Treatment Centres (PKRC) nationwide was below 50%.

       The national infectivity rate or Rt value on Monday was 0.84, with Selangor still registering the highest at 0.92 and Kelantan the lowest at 0.66, he added. — Bernama