HEALTH DG Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (picture) said the government should wait for the Phase 3 clinical trials of vaccines before committing to one.“We have hopes of looking into the vaccines but to date, although there are 11 vaccines in Phase 3 of clinical trials, we have yet to read the reports on them.“So, we hope to analyse the reports in terms of the safety and advocacy of the vaccines. Hopefully, it will be positive but nonetheless, we will look at the details thoroughly,” he said in his daily briefing yesterday.
MALAYSIA is getting eerily close to the 7,000 mark for daily new Covid-19 cases with 6,976 cases reported yesterday, taking the country’s cumulative total to 512,091.Health DG Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Selangor was again on top of the list with 2,235 new cases. This was followed by Sarawak with 663 cases, Kelantan (626) and Johor (549).Other states recording high cases included Kuala Lumpur (KL) (447), Negri Sembilan (434) and Kedah (422).
PUTRAJAYA: Covid-19 hospitalisation and intensive care unit admission figures have reduced in states with higher vaccination rates, the Health director-general revealed.
MALAYSIA reached a new high of 21,668 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, breaking Aug 5’s record of 20,889.This brought the country’s cumulative cases to 1.34 million, of which 237,021 are active cases with 1,059 in intensive care units and 543 patients requiring respiratory assistance.In his statement yesterday, Health DG Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said a total of 318 deaths were recorded with 93 brought-in-dead (BID) cases.