COVID-19 | The Health Ministry's Github data repository has reported 44 Covid-19 deaths yesterday (Oct 30), bringing the cumulative death toll to 28,876.

Malaysia has the highest number of deaths per capita in the Asean and East Asian regions with 876 deaths per 1 million population.

Of the 44 deaths, 9.1 percent or 4 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.

Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths (10), making up 22.7 percent of the newly reported fatalities. Of the 10 deaths, seven involved people who were fully vaccinated.

Over the past two weeks, Sarawak has seen 54 deaths per million people - the highest in the country. In contrast, the Klang Valley has seen 9 deaths per million people in the same period.

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

No new deaths were reported in Labuan and Putrajaya.

A total of 38 out of the 44 reported deaths or 86.4 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 85 Covid-19 deaths were reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 75, indicating a downtrend.

To date, 2,668 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 69,153 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 10.5 percent from the 77,305 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 58 percent from 164,537.

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.