COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 5,828 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,426,050.

Notably, there were only two new clusters.

The fresh infections comprised 5,569 Malaysians (95.6 percent) and 259 non-citizens (4.4 percent).

They were surpassed by a total of 9,178 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

• Patients in ICU: 620
• Intubated: 297

The number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 10.7 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also declined by 13.7 percent from a week ago.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 12.3 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, in Sarawak, hospitalisation is up 8 percent compared to the previous week, according to the CovidNow website.

Generally, new cases across the country are steadily decreasing as an R-naught of 0.87 was recorded yesterday. An R-naught of less than 1.00 suggests that the spread of Covid-19 is decelerating.

The only region with an R-naught of above 1.00 is Kuala Lumpur.

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

The breakdown by states yesterday (Oct 22), when 6,630 new cases were reported, is:

Selangor (1,322)
Sarawak (750)
Sabah (641)
Kelantan (589)
Johor (548)
Penang (440)
Terengganu (439)
Kedah (432)
Perak (381)
Kuala Lumpur (322)
Pahang (302)
Negeri Sembilan (192)
Malacca (183)
Putrajaya (44)
Perlis (43)
Labuan (2)

Clusters

To date, 557 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including two new ones reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 20.7 percent from the 702 active clusters a week ago.

The two new ones are both workplace clusters.

Jalan Sentol Kluang
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Kluang
Initial tests: 10 out of 63 infected (15.9 percent)

Blok 03
Category: Workplace
States: Sabah
District(s): Kinabatangan
Initial tests: 19 out of 55 infected (34.5 percent)

Source:Malaysiakini

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository reported a total of 78 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Oct 22), bringing the cumulative death toll to 28,312.

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

From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 21.8 percent or 17 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital. There were 43 deaths among fully vaccinated people.

Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths at 17, making up 21.8 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Perak (11), Selangor (11), Penang (10), Johor (9), Sabah (7), Kedah (6), Negeri Sembilan (3), Kelantan (2), Perlis (1) and Terengganu (1).

No new deaths were reported in Malacca, Pahang, Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya.

Perlis, Sarawak and Penang had the most deaths per million people over the past two weeks, according to the CovidNow website.

A total of 68 out of the 78 reported deaths or 87.2 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 125 Covid-19 deaths were reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 77, indicating a downtrend.

To date, 2,104 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 80,697 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 18.3 percent from the 98,773 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 59.9 percent from 201,275.

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