KUALA LUMPUR (July 13): A total of 2,779 Malaysia’s healthcare workers have been infected with Covid-19 after they received their two-dose vaccinations, according to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
However, a majority of them are Category One and Two patients who have mild or no symptoms, he said at a virtual media briefing today.
“Only three people are in Category 3 and three in Category 4. If people only have mild or no symptoms, they only need to be isolated at home and this can reduce the number of hospital admissions,” said Dr Noor Hisham at a virtual media briefing today.
The Health Ministry defined Category 3 that entails symptomatic patients with lung infection while Category 4 is for those needing oxygen supplementation and Category 5 is for critical patients with multiple organ complications.
For those who have been vaccinated, the chances of them infecting other people is only 50%, said Dr Noor Hisham, adding that vaccination is the best way to address the worsening Covid-19 situation in the country.
Malaysia’s daily vaccination rate breached the 400,000-mark yesterday (July 12) with 421,479 Covid-19 vaccine doses administered. This is the highest number so far since the country started its vaccination exercise in late February.
Of the latest doses given, 264,034 were for individuals who received their first jab, while 157,445 were for second doses, according to the latest tweets by the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV), citing data from the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF).
Cumulatively, the number of vaccine doses administered nationwide stood at 11.788 million. From this total, 8.104 million individuals have been given at least one dose while 3.684 million individuals are fully inoculated with two doses.
Separately, the country reported 11,079 new Covid-19 cases today — a new record high — pushing the number of active cases to 96,236.
Malaysia has detected 855,949 Covid-19 infections since the country reported its first case early last year.
