COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 8,817 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,294,457.

West Malaysia made up 6,648 of the new cases or 75.4 percent while East Malaysia contributed to 2,169 of the fresh infections or 24.6 percent.

In Peninsular Malaysia, the Klang Valley was responsible for 1,588 or 23.9 percent of the new infections while the remaining 5,060 cases or 76.1 percent came from outside of the Klang Valley.

Sarawak topped the chart with 1,361 fresh infections.

Penang, Perak and Terengganu have seen improvements, recording the lowest fresh infections in more than two months.

Today’s active cases and reported deaths will only be released after midnight. For yesterday’s figures, click here.

New infections were surpassed by a total of 15,615 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

• Patients in ICU: 851 (815 confirmed; 36 suspected)
• Intubated: 395 (332 confirmed; 63 probable)

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 13.6 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also declined by 29.8 percent from a week ago.

New cases by states:

Sarawak (1,361)
Selangor (1,348)
Kelantan (1,063)
Johor (886)
Sabah (805)
Pahang (696)
Penang (595)
Kedah (576)
Perak (473)
Terengganu (356)
Malacca (246)
Kuala Lumpur (217)
Negeri Sembilan (122)
Perlis (47)
Putrajaya (23)
Labuan (3)

Clusters

To date, 956 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including 14 new clusters reported today. Overall, active clusters account for 619 (7.0 percent) of today’s new cases.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 16.9 percent from the 1,151 active clusters a week ago.

The 14 new clusters today comprised 10 workplace clusters (71.4 percent), two community clusters (14.3 percent), one high-risk group cluster (7.1 percent) and one involving a private educational institution (7.1 percent).

Batu Tujuh Setengah Bakri
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Muar
Initial tests: 46 out of 117 infected (39.3 percent)

Jalan Cantik Dua
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Johor Bahru
Initial tests: 20 out of 20 infected (100.0 percent)

Industri Batu 28 Pontian
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Pontian
Initial tests: 13 out of 198 infected (6.6 percent)

Dah Suasana Industri Gurun
Category: Workplace
States: Kedah
District(s): Kuala Muda, Pendang, and Yan
Initial tests: 42 out of 181 infected (23.2 percent)

Dah Terbang
Category: Workplace
States: Kedah
District(s): Kuala Muda, Kota Setar, and Kubang Pasu
Initial tests: 34 out of 60 infected (56.7 percent)

Industri Jalan Wawasan Satu
Category: Workplace
States: Selangor
District(s): Klang
Initial tests: 40 out of 94 infected (42.6 percent)

Industri Jalan Bawal Telok Gong
Category: Workplace
States: Selangor
District(s): Klang
Initial tests: 6 out of 112 infected (5.4 percent)

Kok Lanas Ketereh
Category: Workplace
States: Kelantan
District(s): Kota Bharu
Initial tests: 54 out of 83 infected (65.1 percent)

Sawit Temerloh
Category: Workplace
States: Pahang
District(s): Temerloh
Initial tests: 6 out of 35 infected (17.1 percent)

Laluan Lahat Timur 1/1
Category: Workplace
States: Perak
District(s): Kinta
Initial tests: 25 out of 175 infected (14.3 percent)

Kampung Tong
Category: Community
States: Kelantan
District(s): Pasir Mas
Initial tests: 7 out of 7 infected (100.0 percent)

Kampung Perah Hilir
Category: Community
States: Kelantan
District(s): Pasir Mas
Initial tests: 6 out of 9 infected (66.7 percent)

Penyayang Jejawi
Category: High-risk group
States: Perlis
District(s): Kangar
Initial tests: 22 out of 133 infected (16.5 percent)

Jalan Utama 57
Category: Private educational institution registered under the Education Ministry
States: Selangor
District(s): Kuala Langat
Initial tests: 43 out of 95 infected (45.3 percent)

Source:Malaysiakini

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository reported a total of 76 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Oct 4), bringing the cumulative death toll to 26,759.

This is the lowest number of reported deaths in 92 days.

This is the first time that the reported number of deaths have been below 100 since July 25, when 92 deaths were reported.

From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 19.7 percent or 15 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Perak recorded the highest number of new deaths at 13, making up 17.1 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Perak (13), Sarawak (11), Kelantan (10), Johor (9), Sabah (9), Penang (5), Pahang (4), Terengganu (4), Kedah (3), Kuala Lumpur (3), Selangor (2), Malacca (1), Negeri Sembilan (1) and Perlis (1).

No new deaths were reported in Labuan and Putrajaya.

A total of 68 out of the 76 reported deaths or 89.5 percent happened in the last seven days.

The remaining deaths happened more than a week ago but were only recorded yesterday due to delays in data reporting.

An average of 296 Covid-19 deaths were reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 152, indicating a downtrend.

As of yesterday, there were 142,860 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 19.5 percent from the 177,560 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 44.3 percent from 256,305.

The Health Ministry’s post-midnight update also provided further insights into the new Covid-19 infections yesterday.

From the 8,075 new cases yesterday, a total of 731 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 613 (83.9 percent) were from workplaces while 73 (10.0 percent) were from community transmissions.

Another 25 (3.4 percent) were from clusters linked to high-risk groups such as old folks homes.

The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to education institutions (8 – 1.1 percent), detention centres (7 – 1.0 percent) and religious events (5 – 0.7 percent).

Previously, the Health Ministry released deaths statistics together with the number of new Covid-19 cases in the evening. This had since changed.

Deaths statistics are now released after midnight along with other more detailed data. Malaysiakini reports them in the morning.

Source:Malaysiakini