People wearing face masks walk at the Titiwangsa Lake Gardens in Kuala Lumpur, February 24, 2022. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 — Covid-19 cases in the country continue to slope downwards as the Ministry of Health reported 20,923 new infections in the last 24 hours, pushing both critical and regular bed utilisation down in most hospitals across states.
Only five states have a critical bed utilisation rate of above 50 per cent but still much lower than the rate recorded two weeks ago. Kuala Lumpur’s Intensive Care Unit bed usage is now at 70 per cent, followed by Putrajaya at 67 per cent.
ICU bed use in Johor, Penang and Selangor were at 59, 57, and 53 per cent respectively.
Meanwhile, regular bed usage in Putrajaya and Selangor were at 76 and 70 per cent as of March 26. The other five states with a bed utilisation rate of more than 50 per cent were Kuala Lumpur (59%), Melaka (57%), Terengganu (56%), Sarawak (51%) and Perak (50%).
From total daily cases, over 99 per cent were category one and two patients.
Category 3,4 and 5 patients (those with mild severity to severe symptoms) were 44, 26, 45 respectively. From the three categories, those that have received 2 doses accounted 41 per cent while close to 30 per cent consisted of patients that had received their booster jabs.
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