COVID-19 | The Health Ministry's Github data repository reported a total of 46 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday (Nov 3), bringing the cumulative death toll to 29,091.
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, 17.4 percent or eight individuals died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.
Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths at 10, making up 21.7 percent of the newly reported fatalities.
The remaining deaths were in Kelantan (9), Johor (8), Sabah (4), Kedah (3), Perlis (3), Malacca (2), Penang (2), Negeri Sembilan (1), Perak (1), Selangor (1), Terengganu (1) and Kuala Lumpur (1).
No new deaths were reported in Pahang, Labuan and Putrajaya.
A total of 42 out of the 46 reported deaths or 91.3 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 78 Covid-19 deaths was reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 60, indicating a downtrend.
As of yesterday, there were 67,160 active Covid-19 cases. This is a reduction of 6.3 percent from the 71,713 active infections a week ago.
Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 53.0 percent from 142,861.
The Health Ministry's post-midnight update also provided further insights into the new Covid-19 infections yesterday.
From the 5,291 new cases yesterday, a total of 149 of them could be traced to ongoing Covid-19 clusters.
From the cluster-linked cases, 92 (61.7 percent) were from workplaces while 39 (26.2 percent) were from community transmissions.
Another eight (5.4 percent) were from clusters linked to education institutions.
The remaining cases were traced to clusters related to religious events (four - 2.7 percent), detention centres (four - 2.7 percent) and high-risk groups such as old folks homes (two - 1.3 percent).
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.
