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.