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Overview on mortality rates in the region

This is a comparison between ASEAN countries. The mortality rate for Malaysia to
date until yesterday (17th June 2020 at 12 PM MY Time) was 1.42% as compared to

Singapore which was 0.06%, Thailand 1.85%, Myanmar 2.29% and Philippines 4.07%.
In Indonesia, the mortality rate was 5.49%.

Malaysia-COVID-19 Death

The graph showed the summary of our mortality cases from 17th March 2020 until
yesterday (17th June 2020 at 12 PM MY Time). The first mortality case was on 17 th

March 2020, and we have reached the highest number of COVID-19 mortality cases
(n=6 in a day) around the end of March 2020 until mid of April 2020 (n=6 in a day). Our

first recommendation from the COVID-19 Mortality Committee came out on the 30 th
March 2020. Subsequently, we had a series of recommendations. After we reached our
peak around mid-April 2020, we started to have a slope down on the graph. Our

number of deaths tapering down to more or less zero to one per day until yesterday.
At this point of time, our death numbers were 121 and the number of positive cases in
Malaysia were 8515.