COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 5,713 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,492,343.

The fresh infections today comprised 5,404 Malaysians (94.6 percent) and 309 non-citizens (5.4 percent).

They were surpassed by a total of 5,865 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

• Patients in ICU: 555
• Intubated: 280

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 1.6 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also declined by 6.4 percent from a week ago.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days has declined by 6.2 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Terengganu (+32.2 percent), Negeri Sembilan (+18.3 percent) and Pahang (+10.9 percent) during the same period.

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 3), where 5,291 new cases were reported, is as follows:

Selangor (1,167)
Sabah (675)
Kelantan (565)
Sarawak (540)
Johor (441)
Kedah (381)
Pahang (316)
Penang (246)
Terengganu (209)
Kuala Lumpur (199)
Perak (190)
Negeri Sembilan (156)
Malacca (154)
Perlis (27)
Putrajaya (19)
Labuan (6)

Meanwhile in the latest round of genome sequencing from Oct 29 to today, found 100 percent of 1,047 samples tested to be Delta variants.

University Malaysia Sarawak sequenced the largest number of Covid-19 samples, identifying all 790 of them as the Delta variant.

Clusters

To date, 367 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including 5 new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 22.6 percent from the 474 active clusters a week ago.

The 5 new clusters today comprised four workplace clusters and one community cluster.

Tapak Bina Jalan Rumbia
Category: Workplace
States: Selangor
District(s): Kuala Selangor
Initial tests: 12 out of 70 infected (17.1 percent)

Persiaran Alam 2
Category: Workplace
States: Kuala Lumpur
District(s): Cheras
Initial tests: 11 out of 31 infected (35.5 percent)

Industri Jalan Teluk Buloh
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Batu Pahat
Initial tests: 13 out of 82 infected (15.9 percent)

Sawit Bukit Puteri
Category: Workplace
States: Pahang
District(s): Lipis
Initial tests: 18 out of 28 infected (64.3 percent)

Tekir
Category: Community
States: Negeri Sembilan
District(s): Seremban
Initial tests: 19 out of 105 infected (18.1 percent)

Source:Malaysiakini

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository reported a total of 46 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Nov 3), bringing the cumulative death toll to 29,091.

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, 17.4 percent or eight individuals died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths at 10, making up 21.7 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Kelantan (9), Johor (8), Sabah (4), Kedah (3), Perlis (3), Malacca (2), Penang (2), Negeri Sembilan (1), Perak (1), Selangor (1), Terengganu (1) and Kuala Lumpur (1).

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

A total of 42 out of the 46 reported deaths or 91.3 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 78 Covid-19 deaths was reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 60, indicating a downtrend.

As of yesterday, there were 67,160 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 6.3 percent from the 71,713 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 53.0 percent from 142,861.

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

From the 5,291 new cases yesterday, a total of 149 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 92 (61.7 percent) were from workplaces while 39 (26.2 percent) were from community transmissions.

Another eight (5.4 percent) were from clusters linked to education institutions.

The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to religious events (four – 2.7 percent), detention centres (four – 2.7 percent) and high-risk groups such as old folks homes (two – 1.3 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