KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia recorded 15,941 Covid-19 cases on March 30.
This is the second consecutive day infections have been increasing.
On March 29, cases increased to 15,215 and broke the 16-day downward streak observed since March 13.
The downward trend in active cases which also began on March 13, however, remained consistent, with 26,592 active cases registered so far.
There were a total 33 deaths yesterday including 11 brought-in-dead cases.
Malaysia also reported 21,186 recoveries.
A total 275 cases were warded in intensive care units for Covid-19, and of the number 121 were confirmed cases.
A total 168 people were ventilated yesterday, against the overall number of patients warded for Covid-19 and marked as probable cases.
This was a decline from March 29 and currently the overall use of ventilators nationwide, is at 19 per cent.
Overall, Putrajaya, Selangor and Kuala Lumpur registered over 50 per cent in the use of ICU beds. Putrajaya led with 67 per cent of its ICU beds filled with Selangor (55 per cent) and Kuala Lumpur (53 per cent).
Putrajaya and Selangor also charted the highest use of non-ICU beds with 93 per cent and 66 per cent of its facilities occupied respectively.
Of the new infections today only 108 cases had been classified as Categories 3-5.
Of this tally 26 cases (24.07 per cent) were not fully vaccinated, 46 cases (41.67 per cent) had not been boosted and 37 cases (34.26 per cent) had received the third shots.
Of the tally, 57 cases (52.78 per cent) were aged 60 and above and; 63 cases (58.33 per cent) had comorbidities.
Meanwhile, one new cluster was recorded today bringing the overall number of active clusters nationwide to 207.
The nationwide infection rate stood at an RT of 0.88. Selangor and Perak recorded the highest RT, charting RT1.04 and RT0.91 respectively. While Sabah and Kelantan recorded the lowest RT at 0.67 and 0.68 respectively.
Source: NEW STRAITS TIMES
