KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 — The number of Covid-19 patients being treated in intensive care units (ICUs) have rose again to a record high at 905 patients, which is two more than the previous high of 903 recorded yesterday, the Health Ministry’s data shows.
Of the 905 Covid-19 patients being treated in ICUs, 453 of them need respiratory support.
Since crossing the 800 mark for confirmed Covid-19 patients being treated in ICUs on May 28 (808 Covid-19 patients in ICUs), this figure has continued to rise steadily and uninterrupted daily before hitting the 905 figure today.
Separately, in the Health Ministry’s latest report on the 22nd epidemiological week from May 30 to June 5, there was a weekly mean number of 1,705 ICU beds available in public hospitals, with 1,527 being the mean number of such ICU beds collectively occupied by confirmed, suspected and probable Covid-19 patients, which translates to a mean occupancy rate of 90 per cent.
As for private hospitals, the same Health Ministry report stated the mean number of ICU beds available weekly to be 124, with a mean number of 75 such beds being occupied collectively by confirmed, suspected and probable Covid-19 patients, which translates to a mean occupancy rate of 61 per cent.
The number of deaths recorded from Covid-19 today is 75, which brings the total cumulative death toll nationwide from the virus to 3,611.
Of the 75 deceased today, 23 were in Selangor, 18 in Johor, seven in Kelantan, five each were recorded in Kuala Lumpur and Kedah, and three each in Sabah, Melaka, Negri Sembilan and Sarawak, and two each in Perak, and one each in Penang, Terengganu and Labuan.
The youngest among the 75 was a Malaysian woman aged 26 who also had lupus and chronic kidney disease at Hospital Ampang, Selangor, while the oldest was a Malaysian woman aged 92 who also had hypertension and was brought in dead to the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre.
In the list, 11 of them were recorded as brought in dead.
