COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository has reported 44 Covid-19 deaths yesterday (Oct 30), bringing the cumulative death toll to 28,876.

Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and East Asian regions with 876 deaths per 1 million population.

Of the 44 deaths, 9.1 percent or 4 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths (10), making up 22.7 percent of the newly reported fatalities. Of the 10 deaths, seven involved people who were fully vaccinated.

Over the past two weeks, Sarawak has seen 54 deaths per million people – the highest in the country. In contrast, the Klang Valley has seen 9 deaths per million people in the same period.

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

No new deaths were reported in Labuan and Putrajaya.

A total of 38 out of the 44 reported deaths or 86.4 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 85 Covid-19 deaths were reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 75, indicating a downtrend.

To date, 2,668 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 69,153 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 10.5 percent from the 77,305 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 58 percent from 164,537.

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 4,979 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative case count to 2,471,642.

This is the second time we recorded below 5,000 daily new cases in a week. Before that, the last time we recorded new cases of sub-5,000 cases was four months ago in June.

The fresh infections comprised 4,753 Malaysians (95.5 percent) and 226 non-citizens (4.5 percent).

They were surpassed by a total of 6,127 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

• Patients in ICU: 562
• Intubated: 326

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 6.8 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also increased by 8.7 percent from a week ago.

The number of hospital admissions throughout the country in the last seven days had declined by 11.3 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Pahang (+46.4 percent), Terengganu (+29.2 percent), Kedah (+26.5 percent), Malacca (+26.2 percent) and Kuala Lumpur (+23.0 percent).

Covid-19 hospital bed utilisation rate is highest in Kelantan (82.9 percent), Terengganu (79 percent) and Malacca (75 percent).

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

The breakdown by states for yesterday (Oct 30), where 5,854 new cases were reported, is as follows:

Selangor (1,401)
Sabah (650)
Sarawak (646)
Kelantan (450)
Johor (435)
Pahang (350)
Kedah (345)
Kuala Lumpur (309)
Penang (270)
Terengganu (266)
Perak (231)
Malacca (223)
Negeri Sembilan (213)
Perlis (35)
Putrajaya (29)
Labuan (1)

The R-naught for the country as of yesterday is 0.96. An R-naught of less than 1.00 suggests that the spread of Covid-19 was decelerating.

The only regions with an R-naught of above 1.00 are Kuala Lumpur and Negeri Sembilan.

Clusters

To date, 428 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including six new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 20.6 percent from the 539 active clusters a week ago.

The six new clusters today comprised one non-education ministry institution cluster (16.7 percent), one workplace cluster (16.7 percent), two high education institution clusters (33.3 percent) and two community clusters (33.3 percent).

Desa Sena
Category: Non-Education Ministry institution
States: Penang
District(s): Seberang Perai Utara
Initial tests: 24 out of 80 infected (30.0 percent)

Jalan Bukit Rasah
Category: Higher education institution
States: Negeri Sembilan
District(s): Seremban and Kuala Pilah
Initial tests: 23 out of 83 infected (27.7 percent)

Indera Mahkota Lapan
Category: Higher education institution
States: Pahang
District(s): Kuantan
Initial tests: 10 out of 80 infected (12.5 percent)

Serigala Ulu
Category: Community
States: Selangor
District(s): Hulu Selangor
Initial tests: 11 out of 23 infected (47.8 percent)

Kampung Pulau Panjang Kemumin
Category: Community
States: Kelantan
District(s): Kota Bharu
Initial tests: 16 out of 20 infected (80.0 percent)

Industri Jalan Budi Selatan
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Batu Pahat
Initial tests: 8 out of 29 infected (27.6 percent)

Source:Malaysiakini