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Current Preparedness Levels

16 Oct 2020: Beds and Tests Current capacity for COVID-19, for hospital resources,
for the nation and Sabah state is shared. §

MOH Hospital Preparedness for COVID-19
Patient Management

Preparedness Data for Whole Malaysia

Number of Hospitals
Managing COVID-19
41 MOH 3,505 hospital beds
2 Teaching Hospitals 7,571 LRQC beds

Number of Quarantine Centres
& Low Risk Quarantine Centres Number of ICU beds
(LRQC)

Public & Private Labs with daily Number of ventilators
capacity of 54,706 tests

Preparedness for Sabah

Number of Hospitals
Managing COVID-19
1,045 hospital beds
Number of Quarantine Centres & Low 4,231 LRQC beds
Risk Quarantine Centres (LRQC)
Number of ICU beds
Labs with daily capacity of 2,500 tests
(ATM assists by flying samples from
Sabah to Peninsular Malaysia daily, to Number of ventilators
increase lab capacity)

Source: DG Hisham Twitter §
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