In a tweet, he said 6,504 (51.9%) cases were from Category 1 while 5,848 cases (46.6%) were from Category 2.

Category 1 are positive cases with no symptoms, while Category 2 are positive cases with mild symptoms.

There were 86 Category 3 cases (with pneumonia), 49 Category 4 cases (with pneumonia requiring oxygen therapy) and 54 Category 5 cases (critical and requiring assisted ventilation).

He said that this showed vaccinations are the best way to address the worsening Covid-19 situation in Malaysia. This was proven by the declining number requiring hospitalisation among those who have received both vaccination doses.

Today, Selangor recorded the highest number of cases at 5,512 followed by Negeri Sembilan (1,619) and Kuala Lumpur (1,542). Ten states recorded three digits while Putrajaya (62), Labuan (24) and Perlis (7) had even fewer.

The total number of infections now stands at 893,323.

A total of 1,497,578 Covid-19 tests were conducted in the past two weeks (July 2 to July 15), with 141,523 being done yesterday. This involved 65,822 RT-PCR tests and 75,701 RTK-Ag tests.

Selangor conducted 52,889 tests while Kuala Lumpur conducted 18,369.

“There is still capacity for more tests, which can also be expanded to private laboratories. This capacity is best used for the Covid-19 targeted testing,” he said in a separate tweet.

The Covid-19 infectivity rate, or R0 (R-nought) for Selangor and KL as of yesterday was 1.20 and 1.15 respectively.

Kuala Lumpur, despite the number of cases, had a lower infectivity rate compared to the national average, which stood at 1.20.

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