COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today reported 4,626 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,476,268.

The new case count is the lowest in 133 days, since June 21.

The fresh infections today comprised 4,442 Malaysians (96 percent) and 184 non-citizens (4 percent).

They were surpassed by a total of 5,299 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 5.5 percent lower compared to a week ago.

However, those who require intubation have increased by 0.3 percent from a week ago.

Based on the R-naught value (0.95 at the national level), the new case count throughout the country is generally decreasing over the past 14 days, except in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 9.1 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Terengganu (+38.7 percent), Pahang (+19.8 percent), Kedah (+19.3 percent) and Sabah (+18 percent).

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

The breakdown by states for yesterday (Oct 31), where 4,979 new cases were reported, is as follow:

Selangor (1,128)
Sarawak (616)
Sabah (447)
Kedah (371)
Kelantan (370)
Johor (363)
Terengganu (277)
Pahang (256)
Penang (255)
Malacca (225)
Perak (224)
Kuala Lumpur (215)
Negeri Sembilan (175)
Putrajaya (33)
Perlis (16)
Labuan (8)

Clusters

To date, 411 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including 5 new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 22.2 percent from the 528 active clusters a week ago.

The 5 new clusters today comprised three workplace clusters, one high-risk group cluster and one Education Ministry institution cluster.

Tapak Bina Lebuhraya Setiawangsa 2
Category: Workplace
States: Kuala Lumpur
District(s): Titiwangsa
Initial tests: 14 out of 26 infected (53.8 percent)

Jalan Bank Kuantan 2
Category: Workplace
States: Pahang
District(s): Kuantan
Initial tests: 12 out of 77 infected (15.6 percent)

Industri Wawasan 10
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Batu Pahat
Initial tests: 13 out of 24 infected (54.2 percent)

Kampung Dusun Raja
Category: High-risk group
States: Kelantan
District(s): Kota Bharu
Initial tests: 19 out of 28 infected (67.9 percent)

Kampung Cheroh
Category: Education Ministry institution
States: Pahang
District(s): Raub
Initial tests: 10 out of 39 infected (25.6 percent)

Source:Malaysiakini

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository reported a total of 36 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Oct 31), bringing the cumulative death toll to 28,912.

This is the lowest number of reported deaths in 168 days. Nevertheless, Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and East Asian regions with 876 deaths per 1 million population.

From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 19.4 percent or seven died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths at 12, making up 33.3 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

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

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

Over the past 14 days, Sarawak had the highest death per million people followed by Perlis and Penang.

All the deaths happened over the past seven days, meaning that there were no backlogs beyond seven days.

An average of 82 Covid-19 deaths were reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 73, indicating a clear downtrend.

A total of 2,704 Covid-19 deaths were reported in October, 9,680 in September, 7,642 in August and 3,858 in July.

As of yesterday, there were 67,969 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 10.5 percent from the 75,947 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 57.6 percent from 160,414.

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