Covid-19 deaths (Feb 15): 24 reported fatalities, total at 32,149
COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported a total of 24 new Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Feb 14), bringing the cumulative death toll to 32,149.
The daily reported deaths have been above 10 for 4 consecutive days.
Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and East Asian regions with 972 deaths per one million population.
The deaths were reported in Sabah (5), Johor (5), Selangor (4), Kedah (3), Kelantan (2), Negeri Sembilan (2), Terengganu (2), and Perak (1).
No new deaths were reported in Sarawak, Penang, Perlis, Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, and Labuan.
A total of 22 out of the 24 reported deaths 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 12 Covid-19 deaths was reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 15, indicating an uptrend.
To date, 546 Covid-19 deaths have been reported this month.
As of yesterday, there were 168,447 active Covid-19 cases.
This is an increase of 125.9 percent from the 74,561 active infections a week ago.
Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has increased by 313.0 percent from 40,785.
From the 21,315 new cases yesterday, a total of 610 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.
From the cluster-linked cases, 426 (69.8 percent) were from education institutions while 173 (28.4 percent) were from workplaces.
The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to high-risk groups such as old folks homes (10 - 1.6 percent) and detention centres (1 - 0.2 percent).
The Health Ministry uploads the latest details of the Covid-19 pandemic after midnight on Github as part of its open data initiative.
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