Covid-19 deaths (Nov 13): 41 reported fatalities, total at 29,576

 

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry's Github data repository reported a total of 41 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Nov 12), bringing the cumulative death toll to 29,576.

Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and East Asia regions with 891 deaths per one million population.

From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 19.5 percent or eight died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Sabah recorded the highest number of new deaths at 10, making up 24.4 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Selangor (9), Sarawak (6), Penang (5), Kelantan (3), Perak (3), Negeri Sembilan (2), Johor (1), Perlis (1) and Kuala Lumpur (1).

No new deaths were reported in Kedah, Malacca, Pahang, Terengganu, Labuan and Putrajaya.

A total of 36 out of the 41 reported deaths or 87.8 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 66 Covid-19 deaths was reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 53, indicating a downtrend.

To date, 761 Covid-19 deaths have been reported this month.

As of yesterday, there were 64,277 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 3.0 percent from the 66,240 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 39.4 percent from 106,047.

Cluster-linked infections

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

From the 6,517 new cases yesterday, a total of 240 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 132 (55 percent) were from workplaces while 69 (28.7 percent) were from education institutions.

Another 26 (10.8 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 (13 - 5.4 percent). - Mkini

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