Covid-19 deaths (Dec 10): 41 reported fatalities, total at 30,787

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry reported a total of 41 new Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Dec 9), bringing the cumulative death toll to 30,787.

Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and East Asian regions with 933 deaths per 1 million population.

According to the CovidNow website, the highest incidents of deaths (per million people) over the past two weeks were observed in Terengganu, Perak and Negeri Sembilan.

Most of the new deaths were reported in Selangor (6) followed by Perak (5), Sarawak (5), Johor (4), Kelantan (4), Penang (4), Kedah (3), Sabah (3), Terengganu (3), Malacca (1), Pahang (1), Perlis (1) and Kuala Lumpur (1).

No new deaths were reported in Negeri Sembilan, 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 45 Covid-19 deaths was reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 38, indicating a downward trend.

As of yesterday, there were 60,856 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 2.2 percent from the 62,253 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 1.5 percent from 61,776.