COVID-19 SITUATION OVERVIEW

IN MALAYSIA
TOTAL CASES AND DEATHS (29 May)
HIGHLIGHTS Epidemic curve of COVID-19 cases
7732 8 115
• As of 29 May 2020, Malaysia had a total of 7732 confirmed cases COVID-19 9000
Severe cases Deaths
and 115 deaths. cases 8000
• 6235 cases have recovered, and 8 cases were in intensive care.
• The states with the highest number of total reported cases were
NEW CASES AND DEATHS (last 24 hours)
7000

Kuala Lumpur (2007), Selangor (1837), Negeri Sembilan (852) 6000

and Johor (674).
• As a part of scaling up Malaysia’s laboratory capacities, an 103 0 5000

additional 5 laboratories to the current total of 43 laboratories COVID-19 Deaths 4000

are expected to be operational within the next few weeks, in cases
3000
order to increase capacity to 30,000 tests per day.
• WHO is supporting health systems preparedness and response
planning through modelling and projection of possible health
TOTAL CASES recovered 2000

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system needs.
• The WHO Country Office facilitated the participation of 6235 0

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Malaysia’s medical institutions in the WHO-led Solidarity Trial. New confirmed Existing (active) Recovered (cumulative) Death (cumulative)
The first patient was enrolled on 22 April 2020 and as of 27 May,
the number of patients enrolled is 103 in total.
• Taking a conservative approach, WHO has suspended the
enrollment of patients in the hydroxychloroquine arm of the DISTRIBUTION OF CASES BY STATE Distribution of cases
Solidarity Trial. The other arms of the trial are continuing as
normal. Population, New Total Total/100,000 New Total
Percentage
States cases cases deaths deaths fatal cases
• As of 28 May, 24.4% of total cases are among non-Malaysians. 2019 population
(PFC), %
Of the total tests conducted, 31,204 have been among non- Selangor 6,528,400 28 1873 25.1 22 1.17
Kuala 1,780,700 10 2007 85.8 17 0.85
Malaysians, of which 5.9% (1858 cases) were positive. Lumpur
Johor 3,764,300 3 674 17.7 19 2.82
Sabah 3,903,400 2 346 8.5 5 1.45
Perak 2,512,100 0 255 10.2 6 2.35

BACKGROUND Negeri
Sembilan
Sarawak
1,130,300

2,812,800
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68.7

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Kelantan 1,885,700 0 156 8.2 3 1.92
• The first wave of infection started on 24 January 2020, with the Penang 1,774,600 0 121 6.8 1 0.83
identification of 22 cases, of which 12 had a travel history to Kedah 2,180,600 0 96 4.4 1 1.04
Pahang 1,674,600 1 346 20.1 7 2.02
affected countries and regions. Eight cases were close contacts Terengganu 1,245,700 0 111 8.8 1 0.90 Number of COVID-19 cases per State
and two were from a humanitarian mission. There were 11 days Melaka 930,700 0 216 23.1 5 2.31
with no cases, from 16 to 26 February 2020. Putrajaya 103,800 0 93 86.7 1 1.08
0-200 200-500 500-1000 > 1000
Perlis 254,400 0 18 7.1 2 11.11
• The second wave began on 27 February 2020 and is still ongoing. Labuan 99,300 0 16 16.1 0 0.00
A large tablighi gathering contributed to local clusters of cases and TOTAL 32,581,400 103 7732 21.2 0 115 1.49
prompted the enforcement of the Movement Control Order.