Covid-19 deaths (Oct 17): 88 reported fatalities, total at 27,858

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry's Github data repository reported a total of 88 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Oct 16), bringing the cumulative death toll to 27,858.

The daily reported deaths have been above 80 for three consecutive days.

From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 29.5 percent or 26 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Johor recorded the highest number of new deaths at 33, making up 37.5 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Sarawak (14), Sabah (12), Penang (8), Negeri Sembilan (4), Perak (4), Malacca (3), Kedah (2), Perlis (2), Selangor (2), Terengganu (2), Pahang (1) and Kuala Lumpur (1).

No new deaths were reported in Kelantan, Labuan and Putrajaya.

A total of 62 out of the 88 reported deaths, or 70.5 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 183 Covid-19 deaths was reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 85, indicating a downtrend.

To date, 1,650 Covid-19 deaths have been reported this month.

A total of 9,680 Covid-19 deaths were reported in September, 7,642 in August, 3,858 in July and 2,380 in June.

As of yesterday, there were 95,395 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 20.7 percent from the 120,246 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 58.0 percent from 227,121.

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

From the 7,509 new cases yesterday, 327 could be traced to ongoing clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 153 (46.8 percent) were from workplaces while 67 (20.5 percent) were from education institutions.

Another 64 (19.6 percent) were from clusters linked to community transmissions.

The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to high-risk groups such as old folks' homes (40 - 12.2 percent) and detention centres (3 - 0.9 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.