Covid 19 Deaths 487 Reported Fatalities Second Highest On Record

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COVID-19 | The Health Ministry's Github data repository reported a total of 487 Covid-19 fatalities yesterday, bringing the cumulative death toll to 24,565.
This is the second-highest reported death on record in a single day. It is also the fifth time this month where the daily reported deaths are above 400. The highest record was 592 on Sept 11. 
The country's death toll is likely to breach the 25,000 mark in the coming days.
From the newly reported deaths yesterday, 33 percent or 161 died before they could receive treatment at a hospital.
Selangor recorded the highest number of new deaths at 178, making up 36.6 percent of the newly reported fatalities.
The remaining deaths were in Sabah (87), Johor (63), Kuala Lumpur (44), Penang (36), Kelantan (26), Perak (18), Kedah (14), Malacca (5), Negeri Sembilan (5), Pahang (5), Terengganu (3), Perlis (2) and Sarawak (1).
No new deaths were reported in Labuan and Putrajaya.

A total of 215 out of the 487 newly reported deaths 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 341 Covid-19 deaths was reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 365. This indicates an uptrend.
To date, 7,910 Covid-19 deaths have been reported this month, making September the deadliest month since the start of the pandemic.
A total of 7,642 Covid-19 deaths were reported in August, 3,858 in July, 2,380 (June) and 1,302 (May).
However, the number of active Covid-19 cases is dropping. As of yesterday, there were 201,274 active cases. This is a reduction of 10.78 percent from the 225,590 active infections a week ago.
Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 22.8 percent from 260,703.

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 the next day by 2am. Malaysiakini reports them in the morning.

 - Mkini

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