Covid-19 (June 5): 1,358 new cases, 2 deaths

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 1,358 new Covid-19 cases yesterday.

New daily infections have stayed above the 1,000 mark since May 3. For the epidemiological week ending June 5, the estimated R-number was 0.91.

Active cases stood at 22,183, down 11.8 percent compared to 14 days ago.

New cases according to states are as follows:

Selangor (569)
Kuala Lumpur (264)
Penang (105)
Perak (90)
Negeri Sembilan (81)
Johor (61)
Sabah (45)
Malacca (31)
Kedah (29)
Putrajaya (24)
Sarawak (22)
Pahang (17)
Kelantan (9)
Perlis (5)
Terengganu (5)
Labuan (1)

Another two deaths attributed to Covid-19 were reported yesterday in Sarawak and Selangor respectively.

Over the past week, an average of 3.3 people were reported to have died of Covid-19, while the average for the past 30 days was 3.7, indicating that such deaths are on the downtrend.

Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, a total of 35,688 deaths have been attributed to the coronavirus.

There were 129 Covid-19 deaths last month, 564 deaths in April and 2,235 in March.

Some 904 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised of which 26 are in intensive care.

The number of people who are in hospital due to Covid-19 has not been this low since Oct 4, 2020.

The highest number of admissions yesterday was recorded in Selangor (124) followed by Johor (83) and Sabah (55).