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KUALA LUMPUR: A staggering 1,755 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Malaysia today, with Sabah alone contributing to 1,199 infections or 68 percent of positive cases today.
In a post on his personal Facebook account today, Health Director General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said there was a sudden increase in cases in Sabah.
“Of the total 1,199 positive cases reported (in Sabah), 564 cases were from prisons and a temporary detention center,” he said.
According to the breakdown he gave, the Sandakan prison accounted for 184 cases, while the temporary detention center in Tawau contributed 372 cases and the Kepayan prison eight.
This week, Sabah remained the main contributor to new daily COVID-19 infections in Malaysia, where the total number of cases has surpassed 36,000 some 10 months after the pandemic struck the country.
With new daily cases during the week under review ranging between 600 and 1,000, they surpassed the 1,000 mark yesterday (1,009), Wednesday (1,032) and Tuesday (1,054).
Yesterday, Sabah accounted for 564 of the new cases (55.9 percent of the new cases reported yesterday); Wednesday 646 cases (62.6 percent); and on Tuesday 678 cases (64.3 percent).
With 1,755 new cases reported during the 24-hour period to noon today, the total of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia now stands at 38,189 and active cases at 11,530.
This week also saw an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients who were discharged from the hospital, with the highest number, 1,000, recorded on Saturday (October 31).
Currently, 726 patients have been recovered, bringing the total number of recovered cases to 26,380 (69.1 percent of total cases).
Yesterday 726 patients were recovered, Wednesday 820, Tuesday 875, Monday 900 and Sunday (November 1) 972.
Deaths, other cases
After recording the deaths daily for more than a month, no deaths were reported over the weekend (October 31 and November 1). On Tuesday, however, there were 12 deaths, the highest number in a single day since the Covid-19 outbreak began in Malaysia, all in Sabah.
Today, two more deaths were reported, one in Sabah and one in Kedah, bringing the death toll from Covid-19 to 277 (0.7 percent of total cases).
Yesterday six fatalities were reported, Wednesday eight, Tuesday 12, Monday two and zero on Sunday and Saturday.
Currently, 78 Covid-19 patients are being treated in the intensive care unit and 28 require respiratory support.
To date, a total of 483 cases with a travel history have been reported to Sabah since September 20.
R-zero value
In his press conference on Covid-19 developments in Malaysia on Wednesday, Health Director General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah once again emphasized the importance of reducing the value of R-nught (R0) to less of 0.5 to flatten the nation’s Covid. -19 curve.
At the beginning of the third wave on September 22, the R0 stood at 2.2. Two weeks later, it dropped to around 1.5 and yesterday to 1.0.
The decrease in R0 value is attributed to the rapid implementation of the Conditional Motion Control Order in states that have seen an increase in new cases.
Dr Noor Hisham is confident that the R0 value will fall below 0.5 in two to three weeks. But, as he pointed out, for this to happen the public must cooperate by adhering to standard operating procedures such as wearing a mask in public places, observing physical distancing and frequent hand washing, as well as going out only if absolutely necessary. necessary.
The R0 value refers to the infectivity or level of contagion of a virus at the beginning of an outbreak within a community. Reducing the R0 value below 1.0 will aid in efforts to break the chain of Covid-19 infections in Malaysia.
Latest state of clusters
In Sabah, of the 1,999 new cases today, 663 belong to existing clusters and a new cluster called Mampulut.
Penang registered 192 new cases today, Selangor 164 cases, including four from the new Fores group; Labuan 59 cases; Negeri Sembilan 45 cases; Kedah 19 cases; Perak 18 cases, including seven from the new Rengas cluster; and 17 cases from Kuala Lumpur, including one from the new Fores group.
Sarawak registered 17 cases today; Putrajaya nine cases; Terengganu eight cases; Johor three cases; and Melaka two cases.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister (Security) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaacob said at a press conference on Wednesday that Malaysia’s borders are still closed to foreigners, including those working in Malaysia who are currently in their respective countries. nation of origin.
He said that only those who have obtained the approval of the Immigration Department can enter Malaysia.
The ban also applies to Bangladeshi workers with long-term work passes. On September 7, Malaysia enforced a ruling prohibiting the entry of foreigners from countries that have registered more than 150,000 cases of Covid-19.
According to recent media reports, more than 25,000 Bangladeshi workers with Malaysian work passes have asked their government to help them return to Malaysia.
Meanwhile, between July 24 and November 5, a total of 61,612 people returned to Malaysia through the country’s main points of entry. Currently, 9,312 people are in mandatory quarantine.
Global Covid-19 Statistics
According to CoronaTracker (which cites figures from various agencies, including the World Health Organization), the total number of Covid-19 cases worldwide at the time of this writing was 49,122,214 (45,429,027 cases at the same time last Friday). ) and 1,241,143 deaths (1,187,582 last Friday). The total number of recoveries stood at 35,038,682.
The United States continues to top the list of worst affected nations with 9,926,637 cases (9,214,994 last Friday) and 241,026 deaths (234,201 last week).
India ranks second with 8,411,724 cases and 125,029 deaths.
Brazil ranks third with 5,614,258 cases and 161,779 deaths. Russia ranks fourth with 1,733,440 cases and 29,887 deaths.
Another 48 countries (44 last week) have registered cases that exceed 100,000, namely:
France 1,601,367 cases (9,037 deaths), Spain 1,365,895 (38,486), Argentina 1,217,028 (32,766), United Kingdom 1,123,197 (48,120), Colombia 1,117,977 (32,209), Mexico 949,197 (93,772), Peru 914,722 (34,730), Italy 824,879 (40,192) , South Africa 732,414 (19,677), Iran 654,936 (36,985), Germany 619,116 (11,190), Chile 516,582 (14,404), Iraq 489,571 (11,175), Belgium 468,213 (12,331), Poland 466,679 (6,842), Ukraine 430,467 (7,924), Indonesia 425,796 (14,348), Bangladesh 416,006 (6,021), Czechia 391,945 (4,330), Netherlands 390,488 (7,769), Philippines 389,725 (7,409), Turkey 386,820 (10,639), Saudi Arabia 349,386 (5,489), Pakistan 340,251 (6,923), Israel 317,863 (2,639), Romania 276,802 (7,540), Canada 251,338 (10,381), Morocco 240,951 (4,059), Switzerland 202,504 (2,628), Nepal 185,974 (1,052), Ecuador 171,783 (12,730), Portugal 161,350 (2,740), Bolivia 142,062 (8,768) ), Sweden 141,764 (6,002), United Arab Emirates 138,599 (508), Panama 136,567 (2,756), Qatar 133,619 (232), Austria 132,515 ( 1, 268), Kuwait 129,638 (799), Dominican Republic 128,824 (2,260), Oman 117,167 (1,286), Costa Rica 114,367 (1,444), Kazakhstan 114,235 (1,857), Guatemala 109,849 (3,766), Egypt 108,530 (6,329), Japan 103,838 (1,794), Belarus 103,295 (998) and Armenia 101,773 (1,506).
China, where the outbreak was first reported in late December 2019, is now ranked 59th with 86,151 cases, while its death toll remains unchanged at 4,634.
In Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Indonesia have joined the countries with more than 100,000 cases. Next is Singapore with 58,043 cases, while its death toll remains at 28. Myanmar, where Covid-19 cases are increasing rapidly, has reported 57,935 cases and 1,352 deaths. (Last week at this time, Myanmar reported 41,008 cases and 1,005 deaths.)
Thailand has registered 3,810 cases, while its death toll remains at 59, followed by Vietnam with 1,207 cases and 35 deaths.
Cambodia’s cases rose to 292 and its death count remains zero. Brunei’s tally of 141 cases and two deaths, and Laos’ 23 cases and zero fatalities remain unchanged.
Background of Covid-19
According to the WHO website, its China office was informed of the pneumonia cases that were detected in Wuhan on December 31, 2019. On January 7, Chinese authorities confirmed that the new coronavirus can be transmitted from person to person .
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to more serious illnesses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-COV).
A study of the genetic sequence of the virus suggested similarities to that seen in snakes and bats. Chinese health officials identified the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan as the source of transmission of the coronavirus.
On February 11, the WHO announced the official name of the virus, Covid-19, which is an acronym for coronavirus 2019: CO stands for corona, VI for virus and D for disease.
On January 30, the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a global emergency. By then, it had spread to 18 countries and caused 170 deaths. On March 11, Covid-19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO.
The WHO has described the Covid-19 outbreak as much more dangerous than influenza A H1N1, also known as swine flu.
Swine flu, which occurred between January 2009 and August 2010, infected more than 1.6 million people and caused 18,449 deaths.
The International Monetary Fund has warned that the global economic recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will be worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s.Called
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