Masidi, who is also state local government and housing minister, said the cases reported in the last 24 hours also reflected this trend.

He said 66.8% of the 497 new infections involved people who had completed their vaccine shots.

“The high figures are of great concern because it shows the nonchalant and negligent attitude of a majority of those who have been fully vaccinated over heeding the SOPs,” he said in his Covid-19 analysis report today.

“They might assume they are already invincible from the virus, but the reality is they are not.”

He said the vaccines merely protected those contracting the virus from having serious symptoms and needing intensive treatment in hospitals.

“This is proven as 98% of the cases today only involved patients with Category 1 and 2 symptoms.

“But it doesn’t matter what category they’re under because all patients are still carriers of the virus and they can potentially infect their family members at home,” Masidi said.

The health data shared by Masidi’s ministry has consistently shown that fully vaccinated people account for more than half of the daily infections each day since Nov 1.

As of yesterday, 2,072,134 (or 75.12%) of Sabah’s adult population have completed their vaccination while 298,110 (68.69%) teenagers have done so similarly.

On a brighter note, the 497 cases today are actually a drop from the 611 recorded the previous day although the infections in Sabah have fluctuated over the past week.

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