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PUTRAJAYA: Almost a third of the deaths from Covid-19 during the current third wave were taken to the hospital without life, the Ministry of Health said.
Health Director General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah (Photo) said that of 110 deaths since the end of September, 35 of them were classified as cases of “brought in dead” (IDB).
All 35 cases involved deaths in Sabah, currently the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak in the country.
“We have 44 IDB cases. Of the 44, nine cases occurred during the second wave and 35 during the third wave.
“We have dispatched forensic experts to Sabah to make sure they teach and examine the services on how to properly separate DIS cases in the field,” said Dr. Noor Hisham at the Ministry of Health’s Covid-19 press conference at its headquarters. here yesterday.
So far, 246 people have died due to Covid-19 in the country since the outbreak began earlier this year.
Dr. Noor Hisham said that 136 of the deaths were in the second wave, while 110 deaths occurred in the current wave.
Only yesterday, the country saw eight new deaths, seven of them reported in Sabah and one in Selangor.
The youngest of the eight was a 35-year-old woman who died at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Kota Kinabalu.
Dr. Noor Hisham said the deceased had a history of high blood pressure, asthma, stroke, and dyslipidemia.
The remaining cases were those aged between 56 and 73 years, with the majority of cases with comorbidities (more than one disease or condition present in the same person at the same time).
Currently, 94 Covid-19 patients are under intensive care across the country, and 25 of them require respiratory assistance.
Dr Noor Hisham, however, said there are positive signs since the government imposed the conditional movement control order (MCO) in Sabah and the Klang Valley in the last two weeks, as the level of infectivity has shown an improvement.
The R0 (pronounced R-nothing), which is the infectivity value of a virus, has dropped from 2.2 to 1.1 since the conditional OLS was enforced. “If the R0 were 2.2, we would have seen an average of 4,500 cases per day at the end of October. But the R0 has dropped to 1.1.
“This is still not enough as we want it to go down to at least 0.3, and this requires the cooperation of all Malaysians,” he said.
The number of new cases yesterday was 801, down from 835 the day before and a record daily increase of 1,240 on Monday.
Active cases in the country have reached the 10,000 mark for the first time, with 10,123 patients testing positive and in treatment.
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