COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported 4,922 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,497,265.

The fresh infections were surpassed by a total of 5,579 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

• Patients in ICU: 549
• Intubated: 282

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 3.2 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also declined by 6.0 percent from a week ago.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days has declined by 5.7 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Terengganu (+30.0 percent), Negeri Sembilan (+14.6 percent) and Pahang (+11.5 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 4), when 5,713 new cases were reported, is as follows:

Selangor (1,344)
Sabah (655)
Sarawak (527)
Kelantan (484)
Johor (429)
Kedah (355)
Penang (340)
Pahang (310)
Kuala Lumpur (275)
Malacca (250)
Terengganu (234)
Perak (210)
Negeri Sembilan (188)
Putrajaya (55)
Perlis (38)
Labuan (19)

There was a slight surge in Putrajaya and Labuan yesterday where the fresh infections were the highest since Oct 8 and July 26 respectively.

Clusters

To date, 355 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including three new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 22.8 percent from the 460 active clusters a week ago.

The three new clusters today comprised one workplace cluster (33.3 percent), one higher education cluster (33.3 percent) and one community cluster (33.3 percent).

Dah 3/5 Industri Sungai Petani 2
Category: Workplace
States: Kedah
District(s): Kuala Muda
Initial tests: 54 out of 198 infected (27.3 percent)

Jalan Yahya 4
Category: Pendidikan Tinggi
States: Kuala Lumpur
District(s): Titiwangsa
Initial tests: 9 out of 72 infected (12.5 percent)

Muhibbah Sungai Papan
Category: Community
States: Johor
District(s): Kota Tinggi
Initial tests: 17 out of 22 infected (77.3 percent)

Source:Malaysiakini

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository reported a total of 64 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Nov 4), bringing the cumulative death toll to 29,155.

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, 25 percent or 16 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths at 19, making up 29.7 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Johor (8), Kelantan (7), Perak (6), Selangor (6), Pahang (4), Kedah (3), Sabah (3), Terengganu (3), Penang (2), Kuala Lumpur (2) and Negeri Sembilan (1).

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

A total of 57 out of the 64 reported deaths or 89.1 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 76 Covid-19 deaths was reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 55, indicating a downtrend.

As of yesterday, there were 66,944 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 6.2 percent from the 71,358 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 50.8 percent from 135,946.

Cluster-linked infections

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

From the 5,713 new cases yesterday, a total of 162 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 105 (64.8 percent) were from workplaces while 19 (11.7 percent) were from community transmissions.

Another 18 (11.1 percent) were from clusters linked to high-risk groups such as old folks homes.

The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to education institutions (18 – 11.1 percent) and detention centres (2 – 1.2 percent).

Source:Malaysiakini