MALAYSIA recorded 118 deaths yesterday, taking the death toll to 26,683 fatalities as of midnight. 

According to the Health Ministry’s GitHub raw data repository, 27 of the 118 deaths were classified as dead on arrival (DOA). The total deaths recorded in this category now stands at 5,367.

Meanwhile, only 14 deaths were reported to have occurred yesterday, while the remaining 104 were backlog cases that were previously unreported.

These would be backtracked to the actual day the deaths took place.

The figure is the sum total of the deaths that occur on the day plus backlog reports of deaths, or deaths that have just been confirmed by health authorities to be due to Covid-19 upon completion of investigation.

Most of the fatalities were recorded in Perak with 26 deaths, followed by Sabah and Penang (14 each), Kedah (13), Sarawak (12), Kelantan (nine), Selangor (eight), Pahang (three) Malacca and Negri Sembilan (two each) and Perlis, Terengganu, Kuala Lumpur and Labuan (one each).

There were no deaths reported in Putrajaya.

As of midnight, there were 150,317 active cases, including 860 in intensive care units (ICU), 478 of whom require respiratory assistance.

Yesterday, director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that after almost three months of recording five-figure new Covid-19 cases a day, Malaysia reported 9,066 fresh infections.

The last time the nation reported such a figure was 82 days ago on July 12 when 8,574 cases were recorded. – October 4, 2021.