Private Covid-19 admissions up slightly last week: Health DG

The number of admissions of Covid-19 patients to health facilities per 100,000 residents increased by 3.4 percent in the seventh Epidemiological Week 2023 (ME 7/2023) from Feb 12-18 compared to ME 6/2023, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

He said the admission of Covid-19 patients to public hospitals per 100,000 population in ME 7/2023 compared to ME 6/2023 recorded no change, which remained at 0.4 percent for categories one and two while categories three, four, and five patients decreased by 20 percent.

“The percentage of Covid-19 facility bed occupancy...