Covid-19 deaths (Nov 3): 70 reported fatalities, total toll breaches 29,000

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry's Github data repository reported a total of 70 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday, bringing the cumulative death toll to 29,045.

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, 15 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths at 18.

The remaining deaths were in Kelantan (11), Selangor (11), Penang (8), Kedah (6), Perak (5), Johor (4), Sabah (4), Pahang (1), Terengganu (1) and Kuala Lumpur (1).

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

A total of 69 out of the 70 reported deaths happened in the last seven days.

The remaining death happened more than a week ago but was only recorded yesterday due to delays in data reporting.

An average of 79 Covid-19 deaths were reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 67, indicating a downtrend.

As of yesterday, there were 66,862 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 8.7 percent from the 73,258 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 55.5 percent from 150,318.

Cluster-linked infections

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

From the 5,071 new cases yesterday, a total of 146 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 121 (82.9 percent) were from workplaces while 15 (10.3 percent) were from community transmissions.

Another 7 (4.8 percent) were from clusters linked to education institutions.

The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to and high-risk groups such as old folks homes (3 - 2.1 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.