A health worker taking swab samples for Covid-19 testing. – Bernama photo
KUCHING (Aug 28): A nonagenarian and two septuagenarians were among the four Covid-19 casualties recorded in Sarawak today, as the number of new cases went up to 2,427.
According to the State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC), today’s deaths involved a 91-year-old woman from Kuching, who died at the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH), after being tested positive for Covid-19 on Aug 22.
The committee said the woman had a history of high blood pressure.
The second death was of a 71-year-old woman from Kuching, who was tested positive on Aug 26. She died at the SGH, and had high blood pressure, diabetes and chronic kidney disease.
The third death was a 71-year-old man from Serian, who was tested positive on Aug 17. He had high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic lung disease and vascular dementia.
Meanwhile, the fourth death was of a 60-year-old woman in Sibu who had been tested positive for Covid-19 on July 15.
She had high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic kidney disease and heart disease, SDMC added.
This brought the total number of deaths in the state to 517 to date.