COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository reported a total of 72 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Oct 18), bringing the cumulative death toll to 27,993.

Malaysia is the worst-performing country in Asia in the number of Covid-19 deaths per capita.

From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 12.5 percent or 9 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Johor recorded the highest number of new deaths at 18, making up 25.0 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Sarawak (13), Kedah (9), Penang (7), Sabah (5), Kelantan (4), Perak (3), Terengganu (3), Kuala Lumpur (3), Malacca (2), Pahang (2), Selangor (2) and Perlis (1).

No new deaths were reported in Negeri Sembilan, Labuan and Putrajaya.

A total of 64 out of the 72 reported deaths or 88.9 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 164 Covid-19 deaths were reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 82, indicating a downtrend.

To date, 1,785 Covid-19 deaths have been reported this month.

A total of 9,680 Covid-19 deaths were reported in September, 7,642 in August, 3,858 in July and 2,380 in June.

As of yesterday, there were 89,173 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 20.6 percent from the 112,379 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 59.3 percent from 219,360.

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

From the 5,434 new cases yesterday, a total of 356 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 239 (67.1 percent) were from workplaces while 45 (12.6 percent) were from community transmissions.

Another 34 (9.6 percent) were from clusters linked to education institutions.

The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to high-risk groups such as old folks homes (24 – 6.7 percent) and religious events (14 – 3.9 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

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 5,745 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,401,866.

This is the second day in a row where cases have been below the 6,000 mark.

The fresh infections today comprised 5,443 Malaysians (94.7 percent) and 302 non-citizens (5.3 percent).

They were surpassed by a total of 8,933 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

• Patients in ICU: 682
• Intubated: 331

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 7.6 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also declined by 14.2 percent from a week ago.

Beginning Oct 9, the Health Ministry will only publish the daily breakdown of new cases by states after midnight on its CovidNow portal.

The breakdown by states for yesterday (Oct 18), where 5,434 new cases were reported, is as follows:

Selangor (800)
Johor (698)
Sarawak (694)
Kelantan (643)
Sabah (497)
Perak (363)
Kedah (324)
Terengganu (311)
Pahang (253)
Penang (232)
Kuala Lumpur (223)
Malacca (211)
Negeri Sembilan (151)
Perlis (18)
Putrajaya (14)
Labuan (2)

Clusters

To date, 634 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including eight new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 19.0 percent from the 783 active clusters a week ago.

The eight new clusters today comprised seven workplace clusters (87.5 percent) and one education institution cluster (12.5 percent).

Industri Jalan Johan 2/5
Category: Workplace
States: Perak
District(s): Kinta
Initial tests: 11 out of 301 infected (3.7 percent)

Industri Dataran Kledang Empat
Category: Workplace
States: Perak
District(s): Kinta
Initial tests: 27 out of 31 infected (87.1 percent)

Jalan Woo Saik Hong
Category: Workplace
States: Perak
District(s): Hilir Perak
Initial tests: 19 out of 29 infected (65.5 percent)

Industri Lorong Perak Tiga
Category: Workplace
States: Selangor
District(s): Kuala Langat
Initial tests: 15 out of 63 infected (23.8 percent)

Industri Dua Pulau Meranti
Category: Workplace
States: Selangor
District(s): Sepang
Initial tests: 13 out of 54 infected (24.1 percent)

Jalan Kilang Kluang
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Kluang
Initial tests: 13 out of 157 infected (8.3 percent)

Laluan Persekutuan Sempalit
Category: Workplace
States: Pahang
District(s): Raub
Initial tests: 32 out of 129 infected (24.8 percent)

Jalan Springhill 10
Category: Non-Education Ministry institution
States: Negeri Sembilan
District(s): Port Dickson
Initial tests: 33 out of 94 infected (35.1 percent)

Source:Malaysiakini