Covid-19 (Nov 8): 4,543 cases, uptick in T’ganu hospitalisation
COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today reported 4,543 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,510,852.
The fresh infections were surpassed by a total of 7,348 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.
- Patients in ICU: 534
- Intubated: 263
As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 6.2 percent lower compared to a week ago.
Those who require intubation have also declined by 12.6 percent from a week ago.
The R-naught for the country as of yesterday was 0.92. An R-naught of less than 1.00 suggests that the spread of Covid-19 was decelerating.
The only region where the R-naught is more than 1.00 is Putrajaya which recorded 437 new cases over the past 14 days.
Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 9.5 percent compared to the preceding week.
However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Negeri Sembilan (+17.2 percent) and Terengganu (+11.9 percent).
Terengganu is the only region in the country which has seen a significant rise in hospitalisation of Covid-19 patients in the past month [see hospitalisation chart below]. This state has the second highest Covid-19 ICU bed usage (79 percent) in the country.
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 7), where 4,343 new cases were reported, is as follow:
Selangor (981)
Sarawak (460)
Sabah (405)
Johor (381)
Kelantan (376)
Kedah (325)
Penang (245)
Kuala Lumpur (228)
Pahang (220)
Perak (186)
Terengganu (186)
Malacca (152)
Negeri Sembilan (148)
Perlis (19)
Putrajaya (17)
Labuan (14)
Clusters
To date, 314 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including 6 new clusters reported today.
The ongoing clusters have fallen by 23.6 percent from the 411 active clusters a week ago.
The 6 new clusters today comprised three workplace clusters (50.0 percent), one higher education cluster (16.7 percent), one non-education ministry institution cluster (16.7 percent) and one detention centre cluster (16.7 percent).
Details of the new clusters are as follows:
Dah Batu Enam
Category: Workplace
States: Kedah
District(s): Kulim
Initial tests: 37 out of 81 infected (45.7 percent)
Industri Batu Jong
Category: Workplace
States: Kelantan
District(s): Kuala Krai and Machang
Initial tests: 23 out of 23 infected (100.0 percent)
Persiaran Utama Kulai
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Kulai
Initial tests: 5 out of 16 infected (31.2 percent)
Lingkaran Budi
Category: Higher education
States: Kuala Lumpur
District(s): Lembah Pantai
Initial tests: 11 out of 22 infected (50.0 percent)
Putra Sebelas
Category: Non-Education Ministry institution
States: Putrajaya
District(s): Putrajaya
Initial tests: 5 out of 32 infected (15.6 percent)
Jalan Warisan Indah
Category: Detention Centre
States: Selangor
District(s): Sepang
Initial tests: 16 out of 92 infected (17.4 percent)
Source:Malaysiakini
Covid-19 deaths (Nov 8): 35 reported fatalities, total at 29,291
COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository reported a total of 35 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Nov 7), bringing the cumulative death toll to 29,291.
This is the lowest number of reported deaths in 177 days. Nevertheless, Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and East Asian regions with 890 deaths per 1 million population, and fourth-worst in Asia after Iran, Lebanon and Jordan – all in the Middle East.
From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 14.3 percent or five died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.
Johor recorded the highest number of new deaths at six, making up 17.1 percent of the newly reported fatalities.
The remaining deaths were in Sarawak (6), Perak (5), Terengganu (5), Kelantan (4), Pahang (4), Penang (2), Sabah (2) and Negeri Sembilan (1).
No new deaths were reported in Kedah, Malacca, Perlis, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya.
A total of 34 out of the 35 reported deaths or 97.1 percent occurred in the last seven days.
The remaining death occurred more than a week ago but was only recorded yesterday due to delays in data reporting.
An average of 70 Covid-19 deaths was reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 54, indicating a downtrend.
As of yesterday, there were 64,623 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 4.9 percent from the 67,969 active infections a week ago.
Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 48.7 percent from 125,999.
The Health Ministry’s post-midnight update also provided further insights into the new Covid-19 infections yesterday.
From the 4,343 new cases yesterday, a total of 124 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.
From the cluster-linked cases, 90 (72.6 percent) were from workplaces while 29 (23.4 percent) were from community transmissions.
Another five (4.0 percent) were from clusters linked to education institutions.
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