AUTHOR=Md Nadzri Mohamad Nadzmi , Md Zamri Ahmed Syahmi Syafiq , Singh Sarbhan , Sumarni Mohd Ghazali , Lai Chee Herng , Tan Cia Vei , Aris Tahir , Mohd Ibrahim Hishamshah , Gill Balvinder Singh , Mohd Ghazali Nur’Ain , Md Iderus Nuur Hafizah , Lim Mei Cheng , Ahmad Lonny Chen Rong Qi , Kamarudin Mohd Kamarulariffin , Ahmad Nur Ar Rabiah , Tee Kok Keng , Zulkifli Asrul Anuar 

TITLE=Description of the COVID-19 epidemiology in Malaysia

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2024

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1289622

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2024.1289622

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=Introduction: Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, it has spread rapidly across the world and has resulted in recurrent outbreaks. This study aims to describe the COVID-19 epidemiology in terms of COVID-19 cases, deaths, ICU admissions, ventilator requirements, testing, incidence rate, death rate, case fatality rate (CFR) and test positivity rate for each outbreak from the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 till endemicity of COVID-19 in 2022 in Malaysia. Methods: Data was sourced from the GitHub repository and the Ministry of Health's official COVID-19 website. The study period was from the beginning of the outbreak in Malaysia, which began during Epidemiological Week (Ep Wk) 4 in 2020, to the last Ep Wk 18 in 2022. Data were aggregated by Ep Wk and analysed in terms of COVID-19 cases, deaths, ICU admissions, ventilator requirements, testing, incidence rate, death rate, case fatality rate (CFR) and test positivity rate by years (2020 and 2022) and for each outbreak of COVID-19.