Covid-19 deaths (Oct 29): Another 95 fatalities put the toll at 28,769

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry's Github data repository reported a total of 95 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Oct 28), bringing the cumulative death toll to 28,769.

Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in Asean as well as East Asia with 871 deaths per million population.

From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 25.3 percent or 24 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths, at 31, making up 32.6 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Johor (15), Sabah (11), Perak (9), Kelantan (6), Pahang (5), Penang (4), Terengganu (4), Negeri Sembilan (3), Kuala Lumpur (3), Perlis (2), Kedah (1) and Putrajaya (1).

No new deaths were reported in Malacca, Selangor and Labuan.

A total of 81 out of the 95 reported deaths, or 85.3 percent, occurred in the last seven days.

The remaining deaths occurred more than a week ago but were only recorded yesterday due to delays in data reporting.

An average of 94 Covid-19 deaths was reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 76, indicating a downward trend.

To date, 2,561 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 71,358 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 12.7 percent from the 81,775 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 59.1 percent from 174,493.

Cluster-linked infections

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

From the 6,377 new cases yesterday, a total of 231 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.

From the cluster-linked cases, 140 (60.6 percent) were from workplaces while 35 (15.2 percent) were from education institutions.

Another 27 (11.7 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 (26 - 11.3 percent), religious events (2 - 0.9 percent) and detention centres (1 - 0.4 percent).