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KUALA LUMPUR (July 15): Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 cases are projected to fall below 1,000 by October, if the country could administer 150,000 second doses per day, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
Speaking at a media briefing today, Dr Noor Hisham reiterated the importance of vaccination in curbing the spread of the virus and shared that currently 3.10 million people in the Klang Valley have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
“A total of five million Covid-19 doses will be given in the Klang Valley areas and we expect all adult population in Klang Valley to receive at least one dose by Aug 1.
“When we ramp up vaccination, Covid-19 cases and hospital admission will be reduced,” he said.
According to the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV), 12.65 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been delivered nationwide as of July 14, comprising 8.64 million first doses and slightly more than 4 million second doses.
In terms of percentage, 12.3% of the country's 32.72 million population have received both doses, while 26.5% have received their first dose.
Since July 1, a total of 1.78 million second doses have been administered nationwide.
96% of patients in Category 1 and 2
Dr Noor Hisham also highlighted that while the country posted a record 13,215 new infections today, 8,047 or 60.9% of the patients were Category 1 (no symptoms) cases.
Another 4,637 (35.1%) patients were Category 2 (mild symptoms) cases, while only 531 (4%) patients were Category 3 (lung infection), Category 4 (lung infection requiring oxygen) and Category 5 (requiring ventilation) cases.
On the Delta variant, Dr Noor Hisham said it takes just 15 seconds for a person to be infected with the variant.
“In the past, we learnt that a person can get infected from another individual through close contact of less than one metre over a duration of 15 minutes.
“Now, however, we are informed that the Delta variant can infect someone in just 15 seconds, and the virus is airborne,” he said, stressing that Malaysia is not the only country facing the Delta variant.
Meanwhile, the Health Ministry’s Klang Valley Task Force chief Dr Chong Chee Kheong said virtual Covid-19 assessment centres (CACs) will be set up to manage asymptomatic patients.
He said the virtual CACs will cater to Category 1 and 2 patients.
“Monitoring will be done virtually, without having to be present at a CAC. A digital home surveillance order (HSO) will be issued through the MySejahtera app,” he said.
He said that although those under HSO would not be given any wristbands, the infected person still needs to stay at home.