COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today reported 6,517 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,535,338.

The fresh infections today is the highest in 21 days, since October 22.

This is the third consecutive day where new cases are above 6,000.

The number of recoveries (6,026) was also lower than new cases, which will contribute to a rise in active cases for the fourth day in a row.

• Patients in ICU: 544
• Intubated: 269

The R-naught value, or infectivity rate, also climbed to 1.0 yesterday, signalling that the recovery has stalled.

A value of under 1.0 means the spread of Covid-19 is slowing down while a higher value means it is accelerating.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 1.3 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Kuala Lumpur (+45.3 percent), Malacca (+31.8 percent), Negeri Sembilan (+19.7 percent) and Perak (+12.7 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 11), where 6,323 new cases were reported, is as follow:

Selangor (1,568)
Kelantan (678)
Johor (649)
Sabah (579)
Sarawak (409)
Pahang (403)
Kedah (351)
Kuala Lumpur (339)
Penang (276)
Negeri Sembilan (275)
Perak (246)
Terengganu (223)
Malacca (158)
Putrajaya (84)
Perlis (60)
Labuan (25)

Based on the breakdown yesterday, several states are seeing the highest number of new infections in weeks.

The new infections in Putrajaya yesterday was the highest since Aug 7 while fresh infections in Negeri Sembilan and Pahang were the highest since Sept 13 and Oct 12 respectively.

Kelantan has also seen an elevated number of new cases, recording the second-highest number of fresh infections for three consecutive days.

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository reported a total of 49 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Nov 11), bringing the cumulative death toll to 29,535.

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

From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 28.6 percent or 14 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Sabah recorded the highest number of new deaths at 12, making up 24.5 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Perak (9), Sarawak (7), Selangor (7), Terengganu (6), Kelantan (3), Johor (2), Kedah (1), Pahang (1) and Kuala Lumpur (1).

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

An average of 67 Covid-19 deaths was reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 54, indicating a downward trend.

To date, 720 Covid-19 deaths have been reported this month.

As of yesterday, there were 63,827 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 4.7 percent from the 66,944 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 41.4 percent from 108,997.

Cluster-linked infections

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

From the 6,323 new cases yesterday, a total of 135 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 81 (60 percent) were from workplaces while 24 (17.8 percent) were from high-risk groups such as old folks homes.

Another 24 (17.8 percent) were from clusters linked to education institutions.

The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to community transmissions (6 – 4.4 percent).

Source:Malaysiakini