Covid-19 deaths (Sept 28): 258 reported fatalities, total at 25,695
COVID-19 | The Health Ministry's Github data repository reported a total of 258 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday, bringing the cumulative death toll to 25,695.
The daily reported deaths have been above 200 for four consecutive days.
September is Malaysia's deadliest month since the start of the pandemic, underscoring the country's position as the worst in Asia in...
COVID-19 | The Health Ministry's Github data repository reported a total of 258 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday, bringing the cumulative death toll to 25,695.
The daily reported deaths have been above 200 for four consecutive days.
September is Malaysia's deadliest month since the start of the pandemic, underscoring the country's position as the worst in Asia in the number of Covid-19 deaths per capita.
From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 29.1 percent or 75 died before they could be brought to the hospital for treatment.
Selangor recorded the highest number of new deaths at 56, making up 21.7 percent of the newly reported fatalities.
Other states with a significant number of newly reported deaths include Johor (53).
The remaining deaths were in Kedah (46), Kuala Lumpur (25), Penang (21), Sarawak (19), Sabah (12), Kelantan (5), Pahang (5), Perak (5), Malacca (4), Terengganu (4), Perlis (2) and Negeri Sembilan (1).
No new deaths were reported in Labuan and Putrajaya.
A total of 119 out of the 258 reported deaths or 46.1 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 330 Covid-19 deaths was reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 279, indicating a downward trend.
To date, 9,040 Covid-19 deaths have been reported this month.
A total of 7,642 Covid-19 deaths were reported in August, 3,858 in July, 2,380 in June and 1,302 in May.
As of yesterday, there were 177,560 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 14.5 percent from the 207,698 active infections a week ago.
Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by one-third (33.9 percent) from 268,551.
Cluster-linked infections
The Health Ministry's post-midnight update also provided further insights into the new Covid-19 infections yesterday.
From the 10,959 new cases, a total of 797 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.
From the cluster-linked cases, 430 (54 percent) were from workplaces while 256 (32 percent) were from community transmissions.
Another 66 (8.3 percent) were from clusters linked to high-risk groups such as old folks homes.
The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to education institutions (30 or 3.8 percent) and detention centres (15 or 1.9 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.
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