Covid-19 (Aug 21): 2,464 new cases, 9 deaths

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry said 2,464 new Covid-19 cases were reported yesterday, bringing the total cumulative infections to 4,757,752.

Active cases stood at 38,918, down 11.2 percent compared to 14 days ago.

New cases according to states are as follows:

Selangor (748)
Kuala Lumpur (505)
Sabah (225)
Perak (195)
Negeri Sembilan (167)
Johor (101)
Penang (91)
Malacca (85)
Kedah (70)
Pahang (66)
Sarawak (62)
Putrajaya (50)
Kelantan (45)
Terengganu (43)
Perlis (9)
Labuan (2)

Another nine deaths attributed to Covid-19 were reported yesterday, none of which were declared as "brought in dead".

Over the past week, an average of 8.6 people were reported to have died of the disease, while the average for the past 30 days was 8.1, indicating that Covid-19 deaths are on the uptrend.

Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, a total of 36,145 deaths have been attributed to the coronavirus.

The states with the highest death were Johor (3) and Kedah (3) followed by Pahang (1), Sabah (1) and Selangor (1).

There are 1,409 Covid-19 patients who are hospitalised of which 69 are in intensive care.

The highest number of admissions yesterday was recorded in Selangor (93) followed by Sabah (63) and Johor (60).