COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today reported 4,782 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,436,498.

The new case count today is the lowest in 125 days, since June 22.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 10.6 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Penang (+34 percent), Terengganu (+29.6 percent) and Kedah (+11.9 percent), according to the CovidNow website.

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

The breakdown by states for yesterday (Oct 24), where 5,666 new cases were reported, is as follow:

Selangor (1,078)
Sarawak (754)
Johor (566)
Sabah (502)
Kelantan (469)
Kedah (421)
Perak (349)
Penang (279)
Terengganu (277)
Malacca (262)
Pahang (252)
Negeri Sembilan (218)
Kuala Lumpur (162)
Perlis (40)
Putrajaya (30)
Labuan (7)

There are currently 607 Covid-19 patients in intensive care of which 300 require ventilator support.

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients, including suspected ones, in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 10.6 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also declined by 13.5 percent from a week ago.

The Health Ministry reported that it is monitoring 528 active Covid-19 clusters, down 19.5 percent from the 656 active clusters a week ago.

Another six new clusters were classified today:

Sri Kota Pontian
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Pontian
Initial tests: 16 out of 79 infected (20.3 percent)

Jalan Latar Puri
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Muar
Initial tests: 9 out of 24 infected (37.5 percent)

Jalan Pak Mayong
Category: Workplace
States: Kelantan
District(s): Pasir Puteh, Bachok, and Kota Bharu
Initial tests: 6 out of 16 infected (37.5 percent)

Dah Damai
Category: Community
States: Kedah
District(s): Kubang Pasu
Initial tests: 15 out of 16 infected (93.8 percent)

Dah Merbok
Category: Education Ministry institution
States: Kedah
District(s): Kuala Muda
Initial tests: 18 out of 179 infected (10.1 percent)

Jalan Labohan
Category: Higher education institution
States: Selangor
District(s): Sepang and Gombak
Initial tests: 9 out of 111 infected (8.1 percent)

Source:Malaysiakini

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository reported a total of 46 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Oct 24), bringing the cumulative death toll to 28,400.

Malaysia is the four worst-performing country in Asia in the number of Covid-19 deaths per capita after countries in the Middle East – Iran, Lebanon and Jordan.

From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 26.1 percent or 12 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Kedah recorded the highest number of new deaths at 8, making up 17.4 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Sarawak (8), Perak (6), Johor (5), Sabah (4), Selangor (4), Terengganu (4), Penang (3), Kelantan (2) and Negeri Sembilan (2).

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

A total of 39 out of the 46 reported deaths or 84.8 percent occurred in the last seven days.

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

An average of 116 Covid-19 deaths were reported daily in the last 30 days, compared to the seven-day average of 68, indicating a downtrend.

To date, 2,192 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 75,947 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 18.8 percent from the 93,514 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 61.2 percent from 195,838.

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

From the 5,666 new cases yesterday, a total of 148 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 91 (61.5 percent) were from workplaces while 37 (25.0 percent) were from community transmissions.

Another 10 (6.8 percent) were from clusters linked to high-risk groups such as old folks homes.

The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to religious events (7 – 4.7 percent) and education institutions (3 – 2.0 percent).

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

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

Source:Malaysiakini