Covid-19 death toll in S’wak breaches 1,000 mark

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Health personnel transport the remains of a Covid-19 patient for burial. — Bernama photo

KUCHING (Oct 12): The Covid-19 death toll in Sarawak has crossed the 1,000 mark with the addition of 28 fatalities reported in the State Disaster Management Committee’s (SDMC) daily update.

The state’s death toll now stands at 1,027.

While the cases were the highest death count to be reported by the committee, the fatalities were recorded between Sept 30 and Oct 11.

The death cases were recorded in Sarikei (6), Miri (6), Kuching (6), Bintulu (3), Sri Aman (3), Bau (1), Serian (1), Sibu (1), and Saratok (1).

The victims all had comorbidities with the exception of two whose medical history were unknown.

Coincidentally, they were both male, aged 66, and died on the same day on Oct 9 at Miri Hospital.

Out of the fatalities reported, the oldest was a 99-year-old woman from Sri Aman with a history of hypertension. She died at Sri Aman Hospital on Oct 8.

The youngest victims of the 28 death cases were all aged 58.

Two of them, a man and a woman both from Kuching, had died on Oct 10 at Sarawak General Hospital (SGH). The man had a history of gout and Parkinson’s disease while the woman had hypertension, dyslipidemia and obesity.

The other was a man from Sarikei who died yesterday (Oct 11) at Sarikei Hospital. He had hypertension and diabetes.

There was also a brought-in-dead (BID) case on Oct 9 involving a 67-year-old woman from Kuching who also had hypertension and diabetes. Her body was brought to SGH.