Covid-19 deaths (Nov 1): 36 reported deaths, total at 28,912

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry's Github data repository reported a total of 36 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Oct 31), bringing the cumulative death toll to 28,912.

This is the lowest number of reported deaths in 168 days. Nevertheless, Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and East Asian regions with 876 deaths per 1 million population.

From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 19.4 percent or seven died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths at 12, making up 33.3 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Penang (5), Terengganu (4), Kedah (3), Johor (2), Kelantan (2), Negeri Sembilan (2), Sabah (2), Kuala Lumpur (2), Perak (1) and Selangor (1).

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

Over the past 14 days, Sarawak had the highest death per million people followed by Perlis and Penang.

All the deaths happened over the past seven days, meaning that there were no backlogs beyond seven days.

An average of 82 Covid-19 deaths were reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 73, indicating a clear downtrend.

A total of 2,704 Covid-19 deaths were reported in October, 9,680 in September, 7,642 in August and 3,858 in July.

As of yesterday, there were 67,969 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 10.5 percent from the 75,947 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 57.6 percent from 160,414.

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.