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Covid-19 claimed nine lives a day this month
Published:  Jan 31, 2021 8:55 PM
Updated: 5:07 PM

COVID-19 | The first month of 2021 recorded 289 deaths due to Covid-19, or approximately 9.3 deaths a day.

The number of Covid-19 related deaths in January is 2.6 times higher than what was reported in November and December 2020 (111 each month respectively) when the pandemic peaked in Sabah.

For context, in 2019, there were 4,148 fatalities caused by...


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