Malaysia nudges grim landmark of 20,000 Covid-19 deaths

Noel Achariam Noel Achariam Updated 2 years ago · Published on 10 Sep 2021 7:25PM · 1 Comments

Municipal workers bury Covid-19 victims at the Muslim cemetery in Klang. The Ministry of Health reported 341 people died of the virus in the past 24 hours. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, September 10, 2021.

MALAYSIA is close to reaching 20,000 Covid-19 deaths, with 341 fatalities reported today, said director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

He said currently, the national death toll is 19,827.

There was also a hike in the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care, with 1,310 people requiring critical care treatment.

Of these, 935 were confirmed Covid-19 cases, while 375 were suspected cases and cases under investigation, Noor Hisham said in a statement.

He also said there were 773 patients requiring respiratory assistance.

Similarly, 455 of these patients were confirmed Covid-19 cases, while 318 were believed to have contracted the virus or cases under investigation.

Meanwhile, there are 242,161 active cases after 21,476 recoveries were recorded against the 21,176 new infections today.

Some 20,838 of today’s cases are in category 1 (asymptomatic) or category 2 (mild symptoms).

In the more serious stages of infection, 338 cases are in categories 3, 4, or 5.

There were 37 new clusters reported today, of which 30 are from the workplace, five are community clusters and two involve high risk groups. – September 10, 2021.

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  • Under the superb and glorious leadership of the PN Government 2.0 especially KJ, we will be doubling the number of deaths before the next 100 days with the current deaths per day. Imagine what the numbers would have been without them.

    Posted 2 years ago by Yoon Kok · Reply