Malaysia’s daily new Covid cases per million people is one of the highest globally

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Malaysia’s daily new Covid cases per million people is now one of the highest globally

• On a seven-day moving average basis, Malaysia recorded 483.72 new confirmed Covid infections per million people on Wednesday, according to the latest data compiled by Our World in Data.
  
• That number is the eighth highest globally and top in Asia.
  
• Malaysia has struggled to tame a surge in cases despite implementing multiple rounds of restrictions and a state of emergency.
  

The Covid-19 outbreak in Malaysia has become one of the worst globally.

On a seven-day moving average basis, Malaysia recorded 483.72 confirmed Covid infections per million people on Wednesday — the eighth highest globally and top in Asia, according to the latest data compiled by online repository Our World in Data.

Meanwhile, the country’s daily reported deaths relating to Covid were around 4.90 per million people on Tuesday on a seven-day moving average basis. That’s the 19th highest globally and third highest in Asia, the data showed.

Our World in Data is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Oxford and U.K. non-profit organization Global Change Data Lab.

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