Covid-19 (May 1): 1,503 new cases, a 12-month low

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry said 1,503 new daily Covid-19 cases were reported yesterday - a 12-month low. It was the lowest number of new cases since April 12 last year.

Active cases currently stood at 41,168, down 57.4 percent compared to 14 days ago. The R-number has also steadily decreased and stood at 0.61 as of April 30. An R above 1 means an outbreak is growing,

New cases according to states are as follows:

Selangor (643)
Kuala Lumpur (199)
Malacca (120)
Penang (97)
Perak (96)
Johor (86)
Kedah (62)
Negeri Sembilan (54)
Sarawak (51)
Pahang (39)
Terengganu (20)
Sabah (14)
Putrajaya (11)
Kelantan (9)
Perlis (1)
Labuan (1)

Another three deaths attributed to Covid-19 were reported yesterday, of which one was declared as "brought in dead".

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 17.9, indicating that Covid-19 deaths are on the downtrend.

Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, a total of 35,550 deaths have been attributed to Covid-19.

Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and East Asian regions with 1,071 deaths per 1 million population, and the fourth-worst in Asia after Iran, Lebanon and Jordan – all in the Middle East.

Two new deaths were reported in Selangor and one in Perak.

There are 1,074 Covid-19 patients who are hospitalised, of which 69 are in intensive care.

There were 352 new admissions of Covid-19 patients yesterday - the lowest in 77 weeks.

The highest number of admissions yesterday was recorded in Selangor (122) followed by Johor (72) and Sabah (46).