COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today announced that 6,243 new Covid-19 cases have been detected over the past 24 hours ending noon today.

For the second consecutive day, the number of new cases exceed the number of Covid-19 patients who recovered, which totalled 5,068. This is expected to contribute to a rise in the number of active cases.

This is the highest number of new daily cases since Oct 28.

• Patients in ICU: 543
• Intubated: 279

As of yesterday, the R-naught figure has been steadily rising to 0.96. As long as the R-naught stays below 1.00, the spread of Covid-19 is considered to be decelerating.

The R-naught has breached 1.00 in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya.

Daily hospitalisation of Covid-19 patients is down 6 percent this week compared to the previous week. However, hospitalisation is up marginally in Pahang and Johor.

The new daily cases breakdown by states will only be announced after midnight. This is the breakdown for yesterday:

Selangor (1,080)
Kelantan (792)
Sabah (545)
Sarawak (416)
Kuala Lumpur (413)
Kedah (412)
Johor (385)
Pahang (258)
Terengganu (246)
Pulau Pinang (245)
Melaka (200)
Perak (161)
Negeri Sembilan (160)
Putrajaya (48)
Perlis (35)
Labuan (7)

Clusters

To date, 300 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including 7 new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 23.1 percent from the 390 active clusters a week ago.

The seven new clusters today comprised two workplace clusters (28.6 percent), one high-risk group cluster (14.3 percent), one non-education ministry institution cluster (14.3 percent), one education ministry institution cluster (14.3 percent), one private educational institution cluster (14.3 percent) and one higher education cluster (14.3 percent).

Details of the new clusters are as follows:

Industri Batu 4 Jalan Kebun
Category: Workplace
States: Selangor
District(s): Klang and Kuala Langat
Initial tests: 70 out of 927 infected (7.6 percent)

Jalan Gajah Mati Machang Bubok
Category: High-risk group
States: Penang
District(s): Seberang Perai Tengah
Initial tests: 19 out of 20 infected (95.0 percent)

Pulai Chondong 2
Category: Non-Education Ministry institution
States: Kelantan
District(s): Machang
Initial tests: 7 out of 69 infected (10.1 percent)

Jalan Tanjong Mas
Category: Education Ministry institution
States: Kelantan
District(s): Kota Bharu
Initial tests: 25 out of 33 infected (75.8 percent)

Jalan Kempas Lapan
Category: Private educational institution registered under the Education Ministry
States: Johor
District(s): Kulai
Initial tests: 7 out of 58 infected (12.1 percent)

Sawit Mengkarak
Category: Workplace
States: Pahang
District(s): Bera
Initial tests: 51 out of 71 infected (71.8 percent)

Kandi Sungai Besi 2
Category: Pendidikan Tinggi
States: Kuala Lumpur
District(s): Cheras
Initial tests: 18 out of 30 infected (60.0 percent)

Source:Malaysiakini

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository reported a total of 78 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Nov 9), bringing the cumulative death toll to 29,427.

Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and East Asian regions with 891 deaths per 1 million population.

From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 24.4 percent or 19 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Kedah recorded the highest number of new deaths at 19, making up 24.4 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Sarawak (13), Selangor (12), Kelantan (8), Sabah (8), Perak (7), Johor (5), Malacca (2), Terengganu (2), Negeri Sembilan (1) and Kuala Lumpur (1).

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

A total of 58 out of the 78 reported deaths or 74.4 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 70 Covid-19 deaths were reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 55, indicating a downward trend.

As of yesterday, there were 61,803 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 7.6 percent from the 66,891 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 47.0 percent from 116,630.

Cluster-linked infections

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

From the 5,403 new cases yesterday, a total of 134 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 75 (56.0 percent) were from workplaces while 46 (34.3 percent) were from education institutions.

Another 8 (6.0 percent) were from clusters linked to community transmissions.

The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to and high-risk groups such as old folks homes (5 – 3.7 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