FOR the first time since July, authorities recorded fewer than 100 deaths in a 24-hour period, with 76 fatalities reported as of midnight. 

According to Health Ministry’s GitHub raw data repository, Malaysia recorded 92 deaths four months ago.

Fifteen of the 76 fatalities recorded yesterday were classified as dead on arrival (DOA), while the country’s cumulative death toll is now 26,759 cases. 

Meanwhile, only two deaths were reported to have occurred yesterday, the remaining 74 were backlog cases that were previously unreported.

These will 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 13 deaths, followed by Sarawak (11), Kelantan (10), Sabah (nine), Penang (five), Pahang and Terengganu (four each), Kuala Lumpur and Kedah (three each), and Malacca, Negri Sembilan and Perlis (one each).

There were no deaths reported in Labuan or Putrajaya.

As of midnight, there were 142,860 active cases, including 867 in intensive care units (ICU), 461 of whom required respiratory assistance.

Yesterday, director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that Malaysia has reported low Covid-19 fresh cases for the second day in a row, with 8,075 infections.

He said that on Sunday, cases had dipped fewer than five digits to 9,066 cases. This now brings the total cumulative number of cases to 2,285,640. – October 5, 2021.