COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today reported 5,291 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,486,630.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 3.5 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Terengganu (+38.1 percent), Negeri Sembilan (+20.3 percent) and Kedah (+15.0 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 (Nov 2), where 5,071 new cases were reported, is as follow:

Selangor (899)
Kelantan (688)
Sabah (549)
Sarawak (528)
Johor (419)
Kedah (347)
Penang (276)
Kuala Lumpur (259)
Pahang (250)
Perak (219)
Terengganu (217)
Malacca (214)
Negeri Sembilan (119)
Perlis (54)
Putrajaya (33)
Labuan (0)

The R-naught for the country is 0.95 as of yesterday. A R-naught of less that 1.00 suggests that the spread of Covid-19 is slowing down.

There are two regions where the R-naught is above 1.00 – Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur. Notably, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan recorded a R-naught of exactly 1.00, higher than past week.

Currently there are 545 Covid-19 patients who require intensive care while 286 patients require ventilator support.

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 3.0 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also declined by 2.1 percent from a week ago.

Clusters

The Health Ministry is currently monitoring 390 active Covid-19 clusters, down 21.1 percent from 494 active clusters a week ago.

Another seven new clusters were classified today:

Jalan Mutiara Tujuh
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Johor Bahru
Initial tests: 9 out of 31 infected (29.0 percent)

Jalan Pasar Segamat
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Segamat
Initial tests: 19 out of 46 infected (41.3 percent)

Sawit Jati
Category: Workplace
States: Sabah
District(s): Kinabatangan
Initial tests: 25 out of 63 infected (39.7 percent)

DTI Jalan Duta 2
Category: Detention Centre
States: Kuala Lumpur
District(s): Kepong
Initial tests: 5 out of 7 infected (71.4 percent)

Tumbalang
Category: Community
States: Sabah
District(s): Ranau
Initial tests: 56 out of 86 infected (65.1 percent)

Parit 4A Sungai Manik
Category: Religious event
States: Perak
District(s): Hilir Perak
Initial tests: 14 out of 20 infected (70.0 percent)

Jalan Perdagangan Satu
Category: Educational institution
States: Pahang
District(s): Raub
Initial tests: 16 out of 23 infected (69.6 percent)

Source:Malaysiakini

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository reported a total of 70 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday, bringing the cumulative death toll to 29,045.

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, 15 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths at 18.

The remaining deaths were in Kelantan (11), Selangor (11), Penang (8), Kedah (6), Perak (5), Johor (4), Sabah (4), Pahang (1), Terengganu (1) and Kuala Lumpur (1).

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

A total of 69 out of the 70 reported deaths happened in the last seven days.

The remaining death happened more than a week ago but was only recorded yesterday due to delays in data reporting.

An average of 79 Covid-19 deaths were reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 67, indicating a downtrend.

As of yesterday, there were 66,862 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 8.7 percent from the 73,258 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 55.5 percent from 150,318.

Cluster-linked infections

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

From the 5,071 new cases yesterday, a total of 146 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 121 (82.9 percent) were from workplaces while 15 (10.3 percent) were from community transmissions.

Another 7 (4.8 percent) were from clusters linked to education institutions.

The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to and high-risk groups such as old folks homes (3 – 2.1 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