Table 2.
COVID-19 cases, deaths, incidence rate, death rate, CFR, testing capacity and test positivity rate by COVID-19 variants outbreaks in Malaysia.
| COVID-19 Waves COVID | Total (Ep Wk 4/2020 to Ep Wk 18/2022) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wuhan (Ep Wk 9/2020 to Ep Wk 37/2020) |
Beta (Ep Wk 37/2020 to Ep Wk 13/2021) |
Delta (Ep Wk 13/2021 to Ep Wk 3/2022) |
Omicron (Ep Wk 3/2020 to Ep Wk 18/2022) |
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| Cases, N (%) | 9,375 (0.19) |
333,488 (7.48) |
2,467,804 (55.37) |
1,646,047 (36.93) |
4,456,736 |
| Deaths, N (%) | 128 (0.34) |
1,132 (3.18) |
30,549 (85.86) |
3,770 (10.60) |
35,579 |
| Average weekly incidence rate* | 1.48 | 32.91 | 169.89 | 304.53 | 108.51 |
| Average weekly death rate* | 0.02 | 0.11 | 2.10 | 0.70 | 0.87 |
| CFR (%) | 1.42 | 0.34 | 1.24 | 0.23 | 0.80 |
| Total test, N (%) | 853,379 (1.45) |
8,781,144 (14.91) |
33,603,291 (57.04) |
15,157,523 (25.73) |
58,906,954 |
| Test positivity rate (%) | 1.00 | 3.80 | 7.34 | 10.86 | 7.57 |
*Weekly incidences /death rates were estimated and averaged over the number of Epidemiological Weeks for each outbreak.