Covid-19 (Aug 29): 1,946 new cases, 8 deaths

 

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 1,946 new Covid-19 cases yesterday.

Active infections stood at 31,568, down 22.5 percent compared to 14 days ago.

New cases according to states are as follows:

Selangor (673)
Kuala Lumpur (246)
Sabah (180)
Perak (139)
Kelantan (99)
Kedah (86)
Johor (85)
Malacca (85)
Negeri Sembilan (83)
Penang (72)
Terengganu (54)
Sarawak (53)
Pahang (45)
Putrajaya (39)
Perlis (7)
Labuan (0)

Another eight deaths attributed to Covid-19 were reported yesterday in Johor (4) and Selangor (4).

Over the past week, an average of 7.3 people were reported to have died of Covid-19, while the average for the past 30 days was 8.2, indicating that such deaths are on the downtrend.

Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, a total of 36,206 deaths have been attributed to the disease.

There have been 237 reported Covid-19 deaths this month. For comparison, there were 204 deaths last month and 89 in June.

There are 1,312 Covid-19 patients hospitalised of which 75 are in intensive care.

The highest number of admissions yesterday was recorded in Selangor (117) followed by Johor (59) and Sabah (52). - Mkini