Covid-19 deaths (Nov 19): 55 reported deaths, total at 29,892

COVID-19 | The Health Ministry's Github data repository reported a total of 55 Covid-19 deaths yesterday (Nov 18) while the national death toll has reached 29,892.

Sarawak recorded the highest number of new deaths at 10, making up 18.2 percent of the newly reported fatalities.

The remaining deaths were in Terengganu (8), Kedah (7), Kelantan (6), Selangor (6), Johor (5), Perak (4), Malacca (2), Negeri Sembilan (2), Kuala Lumpur (2), Pahang (1), Perlis (1) and Sabah (1).

No new deaths were reported in Penang, Labuan and Putrajaya.

According to the Health Ministry's CovidNow website, Terengganu had the highest incidents of Covid-19 deaths over the past two weeks (42 per million), followed by Sarawak (36 per million) and Perak (25 per million).

A total of 49 out of the 55 reported deaths or 89.1 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 61 Covid-19 deaths were reported daily in the last 30 days compared to the seven-day average of 51, indicating a downtrend.

To date, 1,077 Covid-19 deaths have been reported this month.

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 67,358 active Covid-19 cases. This is an increase of 5.5 percent from the 63,827 active infections a week ago.

Compared to 30 days ago, the number of active cases has fallen by 22.7 percent from 87,184.

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.