KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is seeing a spike in deaths and brought-in-dead (BID) cases due to Covid-19 complications.
According to data shared on CovidNow and GitHub, the Health Ministry recorded almost a sixfold increase in Covid-19 deaths since Feb 10 (10 fatalities).
Covid-19 deaths continued to see double digits with the number rising to 57 on Feb 25 (Friday) and 43 on Feb 26 (Saturday).
As of Feb 26, the ministry logged a total 32,634 deaths, including 6,673 BID cases.
BID cases, meanwhile, went up from one on Feb 10 to 14 deaths on Feb 25 and 13 on Feb 26.
The highest number of deaths involved elderly patients aged 60 and above, followed by adults aged 18 to 59 years.
CovidNow data showed that the number of fatalities among Covid-19 patients aged above 60 years rose from seven deaths on Feb 1 to 28 on Feb 19.
Only three adults (18 to 59 years) died due to Covid-19 complications on Feb 1 and the figure increased to 10 on Feb 19.
Based on data showing deaths per 100,000 population according to vaccination status, the death rate of unvaccinated patients was 9.1 for every 100,000 people (seven-day average) on Feb 19.
This is far higher than the death rate of 0.7 (seven-day average) for patients who had completed their vaccination (two doses) and 0.2 (seven-day average) for those who had taken their booster shots.
Malaysia, over the past two weeks, recoded 14 deaths per million people. Johor, Sabah and Kedah logged the highest number of deaths at 25, 22, and 21 per million people.
This was followed by Melaka (19), Perak (16), Pahang (13), Negri Sembilan (12), Perlis (12), Selangor (11), Klang Valley (10), Penang (10), Labuan (10), Terengganu (eight), Kelantan (six), Kuala Lumpur (six), and Sarawak (one).