KUALA LUMPUR: This week, Sabah remained the main contributor to new Covid-19 infections in Malaysia, where the total number of cases exceeded 36,000 about 10 months after the pandemic hit malaysia.
With new daily instances in the week under review ranging from six hundred to 1,000, they surpassed the 1,000 mark on Thursday (1,009), Wednesday (1032) and Tuesday (1054).
On Thursday, Sabah accounted for 564 of the new ones (55. 9 consistent with the penny of the new ones reported yesterday); Wednesday 646 (62. 6%); Tuesday 678 (64. 3%).
At 1,009 on Thursday, the total number of Covid-19s in Malaysia is now 36,434 and active at 10,503.
This week there was also an increase in the number of patients with Covid-19 discharged from the hospital, with the highest number, 1000, recorded on Saturday (October 31).
In the 24 hours until noon yesterday, 839 patients recovered, bringing the total number of instances recovered to 25,654 (70. 4% of total instances).
On Wednesday 820 they recovered, on Tuesday 875, Monday 900 and Sunday (November 1) 972.
Deaths, cases
After recording deaths on a basis for more than a month, no deaths were reported over the weekend (October 31 and November 1). However, on Tuesday, 12 deaths, the highest number in a day since the start of Covid-19. epidemic in Malaysia – they were recorded, all in Sabah.
Six deaths were recorded on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 277 (0. 8% of the total number of cases). Five of the deaths occurred in Sabah and one in Kuala Lumpur.
On Wednesday, 8 deaths were reported, Tuesday 12, Monday two and 0 Sunday and Saturday.
Currently, 78 patients with Covid-19 are treated in the intensive care unit and 28 require respiratory assistance.
To date, a total of 483 cases have been reported with a history in Sabah since 20 September.
R-nothing value
At his press conference on the progression of Covid-19 in Malaysia on Wednesday, the Director-General of Health, Tan Sri, Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, supported the importance of reducing the price of R-rien (R0) to less than 0. 5 to flatten the country’s Covid. -19 curve.
At the beginning of the third wave on September 22, the R0 at 2. 2. Two weeks later, it dropped to about 1. 5 and Thursday to 1. 0.
R0 price minimization is attributed to the immediate implementation of the conditional move order in states that have noticed an increase in new cases.
Dr. Noor Hisham is confident that the price of R0 will fall below 0. 5 in two or three weeks, but, as he noted, for this to happen, the public will have to cooperate by complying with popular operating procedures such as dressing in clothing. a mask in public places, observing physical distances and washing your hands frequently, as well as leaving only if surely necessary.
The R0 price refers to the infectiousness or contagious point of a virus at the beginning of an epidemic within a community. Lowering the R0 price below 1. 0 will contribute to efforts to break the Covid-19 infection chain in Malaysia.
Latest state of clusters
On Thursday, a total of 267 Covid-19 clusters were reported in the country and 119 of them ended, and of the 148 active clusters that exist, 37 reported new instances on Thursday.
On Thursday, five new conglomerates were reported, two in Sabah (sutera’s conglomerate in Kota Kinabalu that reported 15 cases and Ria’s conglomerate in Tuaran with 11 cases).
Selangor reported a new conglomerate in Petaling district (Tamar conglomerate with 10 cases); Penang one (Intan organization with cases); Kuala Lumpur, in Titiwangsa district (Danau organization with 8 cases).
In addition to Sabah, other states that have noticed an increase in Covid-19 instances are Selangor, which recorded 177 new instances on Thursday (including 3 with a history of a Sabah); Labuan 92 cases; Negeri Sembilan 90 instances; Penang 36 cases; Kuala Lumpur 14 cases; Kedah seven cases; Sarawak six cases; Perak six cases; Melaka five cases; Johor two cases; and Putrajaya a case.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister (Security) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaacob said at a press conference Wednesday that Malaysia’s borders were still closed to foreigners, adding that those in Malaysia have recently been in his home country.
He said that only those who have received approval from the immigration branch can enter Malaysia.
The ban also applies in Bangladesh to those with long-term paint passes. On 7 September, Malaysia implemented a resolution prohibiting the access of foreigners from countries that have registered more than 150,000 cases of Covid-19.
According to recent press reports, more than 25,000 Bangladeshi employees with Malaysian paint passes have asked their government to return to Malaysia.
At the same time, a total of 61,331 more people returned to Malaysia through the country’s main ports of entry. A total of 9886 people have recently undergone a mandatory two-week quarantine at 67 hotels and 19 other facilities, adding public education institutes in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Penang, Johor, Sarawak, Kelantan, Perak, Kedah, Perlis, Terengganu, Sabah and Labuan and personal educational establishments in Kuala Lumpur and Seorlang.
Covid-19 Global Statistics
According to CoronaTracker (which cites figures from agencies adding the World Health Organization), the total number of international instances of Covid-19 at the time of writing was 49,018,297 (45,429. 0 27 instances at the same time last Friday) and 1,239,410 deaths (1,187,582 last Friday) The total number of recoveries was 34,980,752.
The United States remains the most sensitive on the list of most affected countries with 9,919,522 cases (9,214,994 last Friday) and 240,953 deaths (234,201 last week).
India has 8,411,034 instances and 125,029 deaths.
Brazil ranks third with 5,614,258 cases and 161,779 deaths, while Russia ranks fourth with 1,712,858 cases and 29,509 deaths.
47 countries (last week 44) registered instances of more than 100,000, namely:
France 1,601,367 (9,037 deaths), Spain 1,365,895 (38,486), Argentina 1,217,028 (32,766), United Kingdom 1,123,197 (48,120), Colombia 1,1028 (32,766), United Kingdom 1,123,197 (48,120) , Colombia 1. 1. 026 117,977 (32,209), Mexico 949,197 (93,772), Peru 914,722 (34,730), Italy 824,879 (40,192), South Africa 732,414 (19,674) 7), Iran 654,936 (36,985), Germany 619,116 (11,190), Chile 516,582 (14,404), Iraq 489,571 (11,175), Belgium 468,213 (12,333) Poland 466,679 (6,842), Ukraine 430,467 (7924), Indonesia 425,796 (14,348), Bangladesh 416,006 (6,021), Czech Republic 391,945 (4,330) Array Netherlands 390,488 (7,769), Philippines 389,725 (7,409), Turkey 386,820 (10,639), Saudi Arabia 349,386 (5,489), Pakistan 340 Array251 (6923), Israel 317,863 (2,639), Romania 276,802 (7,540), Canada 251,338 (10,381), Morocco 240,951 (4. 4,951 059) , Switzerland 202,504 (2,628), Nepal 185,974 (1,052), Ecuador 171,783 (12,730), Portugal 161,350 (2,740), Bolivia 14 2,062 (8768), Sweden 141764 (6,002), E miles 138,599 (508), Panama 136567 (2,756) , Qatar 133 619 (232), Austria 132 Array 515 (1268), Kuwait 129,638 (799), Dominican Republic 128,824 (2,260), Oman 117,167 (1,286), Costa Rica 114,367 (1,444) , Kazakhstan 1,444 114,235 (1,857), Guatemala 109,849 (3,766), Egypt 108,530 (6,329), Japan 103,838 (1,794) and Belarus 103,295 (998).
China, where the epidemic was first reported at the end of December 2019, is now 59th with 86151 cases, while its death toll remains unchanged at 4634.
In Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Indonesia have joined countries with more than 100,000 cases, then Singapore comes with 58,043 cases, while the death toll remains at 28,352 deaths. (Last week, at this time, Myanmar reported 41,008 cases and 1,005 deaths. )
Thailand recorded 3,810 cases, while its death toll remains at 59, followed by Vietnam with 1,207 cases and 35 deaths.
The number of cases in Cambodia has increased to 292 and the death toll is 0. Brunei’s count of 141 cases and two deaths, and the 23 cases of Laos and 0 unchanged deaths.
Covid-19 background
According to the WHO website, his country’s workplace in China reported cases of pneumonia detected in Wuhan on 31 December 2019 On 7 January, the Chinese government showed that the new coronavirus can be transmitted from one man to another.
Coronaviruses are a giant circle of virus relatives that cause diseases ranging from colds to more serious diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-VOC).
One of the virus’s genetic series noted similarities with what was observed in snakes and bats. Health officials in China have known the seafood market from Huanan to Wuhan as the source of transmission of the coronavirus.
On 11 February, WHO announced the official call for the virus, Covid-19, which is an acronym for coronavirus 2019: corona CO, VI for viruses and D for disease.
On 30 January, WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a global emergency. By then, it had spread to 18 countries and caused 170 deaths. On 11 March, covid-19 declared a pandemic through WHO.
WHO has described the Covid-19 outbreak as much more harmful than influenza A H1N1, also known as swine flu. Swine flu, which occurred between January 2009 and August 2010, inflames 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 would be worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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