Covid-19 (Nov 8): 4,543 cases, uptick in T'ganu hospitalisation

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)