Covid-19 (March 22): No signs of abating - 21,483 new cases, 73 new deaths

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry said 21,483 new daily Covid-19 cases were reported yesterday, bringing the total cumulative cases to 4,032,435.

Active cases currently stood at 252,672, down 18.5 percent compared to 14 days ago.

New cases according to states are as follows:

Selangor (7,452)

Kuala Lumpur (3,433)

Sarawak (1,547)

Penang (1,295)

Kedah (1,219)

Perak (1,170)

Negeri Sembilan (1,061)

Pahang (959)

Johor (927)

Kelantan (609)

Terengganu (584)

Malacca (536)

Sabah (402)

Perlis (131)

Labuan (93)

Putrajaya (65)

Another 73 deaths attributed to Covid-19 was reported yesterday, of which 25 was declared as 'brought in dead'.

Over the past week, an average of 77.3 people were reported to have died of Covid-19, while the average for the past 30 days was 72.9, indicating that Covid-19 deaths are on the uptrend.

Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, a total of 34,535 deaths have been attributed to Covid-19.

There has been 1,786 reported Covid-19 deaths this month. For comparison, there were 771 deaths last month and 491 deaths in January.

Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and East Asian regions with 1,044 deaths per 1 million population, and fourth-worst in Asia after Iran, Lebanon and Jordan – all in the Middle East.

The state with the highest numbers of deaths was Perak (19) followed by Johor (11), Selangor (11), Kedah (9), Penang (8), Kelantan (3), Malacca (3), Sabah (3), Terengganu (3), Negeri Sembilan (1), Perlis (1) and Sarawak (1).

There are 6,617 Covid-19 patients who are hospitalised of which 339 are in intensive care. - Mkini