TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Since last Monday, the number of daily Covid-19 cases reported by Malaysia is greater than Indonesia. Three days later, today, Wednesday, August 25, 2021, the number of new cases in the country is 22,642. At the same time, Indonesia reported 18,671 cases.

On Tuesday, the number of new cases in the two countries was recorded at 20,837 and 19,106 cases, respectively. Later on Monday, the number changes to 17,672 and 9,604, respectively. Although Malaysia records more new cases, Indonesia continues to record a higher number of fatal Covid-19 cases with a total four to five times higher within the three days compared to Malaysia.

Data on the number of new transmission cases and Covid-19 deaths on the Worldometers website also shows that several other countries in Southeast Asia have recorded relatively high daily additions of cases globally. The Philippines, for example, recorded the highest among Southeast Asian countries last Monday with 18,310 new cases in the country.

While yesterday and today, the Philippines recorded 11,891 and 13,573. In the same period, from last Monday to Wednesday, Thailand reported the addition of 17,491, 17,165 and 18,417 new cases, respectively. Vietnam reported 10,280, 10,811, and 12,096.

Three days are no longer the highest, Indonesia remains at the top for the period of adding new cases in the past month or four weeks. The figure is 768,230. Compare with Thailand, for example, which amounted to 557,123 cases. Or Malaysia, with 549,531 new cases.

For this additional four-week period, data compiled in the dashboard of Johns Hopkins University, United States, Indonesia is under new case records in the United States, India, Iran, Brazil and the United Kingdom. They recorded an addition of 800,000 to 3.4 million new cases of Covid-19 over the past month.

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ZACHARIAS WURAGIL | MAUDEY K. SETYAKUSUMA (Internship)