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

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 | The Health Ministry reported 4,343 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,506,309.

The number of fresh infections today is the lowest in 175 days, since May 16.

They comprised 4,126 Malaysians (95 percent) and 217 non-citizens (5 percent).

The fresh infections were surpassed by a total of 5,190 Covid-19 patients who recovered today. This is expected to help reduce the number of active cases.

• Patients in ICU: 554
• Intubated: 272

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 1.4 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also declined by 16.6 percent from a week ago.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 7.3 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Negeri Sembilan (+26.3 percent) and Terengganu (+16 percent) in the same period.

Beginning Oct 9, the Health Ministry only publishes today’s breakdown of new cases by states after midnight on its CovidNow portal.

The breakdown by states for yesterday (Nov 6), where 4,701 new cases were reported, is as follows:

Selangor (1,063)
Sabah (569)
Sarawak (499)
Johor (395)
Kelantan (379)
Kuala Lumpur (268)
Pahang (267)
Kedah (232)
Penang (225)
Perak (201)
Terengganu (201)
Malacca (172)
Negeri Sembilan (149)
Putrajaya (41)
Perlis (30)
Labuan (10)

Clusters

To date, 325 Covid-19 clusters are still active, including seven new clusters reported today.

The ongoing clusters have fallen by 24.1 percent from the 428 active clusters a week ago.

The seven new clusters today comprised three community clusters (42.9 percent), three workplace clusters (42.9 percent) and one education cluster (14.3 percent).

Kampung Jubakar Darat
Category: Community
States: Kelantan
District(s): Tumpat
Initial tests: 17 out of 27 infected (63 percent)

Jalan Cempaka Mersing
Category: Community
States: Johor
District(s): Mersing
Initial tests: 16 out of 47 infected (34 percent)

Karanaan
Category: Community
States: Sabah
District(s): Ranau
Initial tests: 52 out of 118 infected (44.1 percent)

Paradise Georgetown
Category: Workplace
States: Penang
District(s): Timur Laut
Initial tests: 31 out of 106 infected (29.2 percent)

Tapak Bina Jalan Station Kluang
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Kluang
Initial tests: 29 out of 95 infected (30.5 percent)

Terendak
Category: Workplace
States: Malacca
District(s): Alor Gajah
Initial tests: 32 out of 52 infected (61.5 percent)

Jalan Chinchin
Category: Higher education
States: Malacca
District(s): Jasin
Initial tests: 23 out of 92 infected (25 percent)

Source:Malaysiakini

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry’s Github data repository reported a total of 54 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Nov 6), bringing the cumulative death toll to 29,256.

Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and East Asian regions with 889 deaths per 1 million population.

From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 22.2 percent or 12 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths at 18, making up 33.3 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Sabah (7), Selangor (7), Pahang (5), Terengganu (4), Johor (3), Kedah (3), Kelantan (3), Perak (2), Malacca (1) and Kuala Lumpur (1).

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

A total of 47 out of the 54 reported deaths or 87 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 71 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 65,505 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 5.3 percent from the 69,153 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 49.2 percent from 129,050.

Cluster-linked infections

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

From the 4,701 new cases yesterday, a total of 112 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 82 (73.2 percent) were from workplaces while 21 (18.8 percent) were from high-risk groups such as old folks homes.

Another nine (8.0 percent) were from clusters linked to education institutions.

Previously, the Health Ministry released death statistics together with the number of new Covid-19 cases in the evening. This had since changed.

Death statistics are now released after midnight along with other more detailed data. Malaysiakini reports them in the morning.

Source:Malaysiakini

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

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

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today reported 5,291 new Covid-19 cases today, bringing the cumulative infections to 2,486,630.

Nationally, the number of hospital admissions in the last seven days have declined by 3.5 percent compared to the preceding week.

However, hospital admissions in some states are on the rise, particularly in Terengganu (+38.1 percent), Negeri Sembilan (+20.3 percent) and Kedah (+15.0 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 2), where 5,071 new cases were reported, is as follow:

Selangor (899)
Kelantan (688)
Sabah (549)
Sarawak (528)
Johor (419)
Kedah (347)
Penang (276)
Kuala Lumpur (259)
Pahang (250)
Perak (219)
Terengganu (217)
Malacca (214)
Negeri Sembilan (119)
Perlis (54)
Putrajaya (33)
Labuan (0)

The R-naught for the country is 0.95 as of yesterday. A R-naught of less that 1.00 suggests that the spread of Covid-19 is slowing down.

There are two regions where the R-naught is above 1.00 – Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur. Notably, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan recorded a R-naught of exactly 1.00, higher than past week.

Currently there are 545 Covid-19 patients who require intensive care while 286 patients require ventilator support.

As of today, the number of Covid-19 patients (including suspected ones) in the intensive care unit (ICU) is 3.0 percent lower compared to a week ago.

Those who require intubation have also declined by 2.1 percent from a week ago.

Clusters

The Health Ministry is currently monitoring 390 active Covid-19 clusters, down 21.1 percent from 494 active clusters a week ago.

Another seven new clusters were classified today:

Jalan Mutiara Tujuh
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Johor Bahru
Initial tests: 9 out of 31 infected (29.0 percent)

Jalan Pasar Segamat
Category: Workplace
States: Johor
District(s): Segamat
Initial tests: 19 out of 46 infected (41.3 percent)

Sawit Jati
Category: Workplace
States: Sabah
District(s): Kinabatangan
Initial tests: 25 out of 63 infected (39.7 percent)

DTI Jalan Duta 2
Category: Detention Centre
States: Kuala Lumpur
District(s): Kepong
Initial tests: 5 out of 7 infected (71.4 percent)

Tumbalang
Category: Community
States: Sabah
District(s): Ranau
Initial tests: 56 out of 86 infected (65.1 percent)

Parit 4A Sungai Manik
Category: Religious event
States: Perak
District(s): Hilir Perak
Initial tests: 14 out of 20 infected (70.0 percent)

Jalan Perdagangan Satu
Category: Educational institution
States: Pahang
District(s): Raub
Initial tests: 16 out of 23 infected (69.6 percent)

Source:Malaysiakini