{"id":101968,"date":"2020-11-18T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=101968"},"modified":"2020-11-18T12:09:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T04:09:11","slug":"covid-19-moh-targets-r-naught-value-of-0-5-malaysian-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=101968","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: MOH Targets R Naught Value Of 0.5 &#8211; Malaysian Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br> KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The Ministry of Health (MOH) is targeting a R naught value or infectivity rate of below 0.5 through public health activities in preventing and controlling the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the number of new cases reported Tuesday, which was 1,210 cases, put the value of the country&#8217;s immunity rate at between 1.1 and 0.9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMOH is targeting R naught or infectivity rate below 0.5 by increasing public health activities to prevent and control infections (COVID-19),&#8221; he said via his official Twitter Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, COVID-19 positive cases in Malaysia continued to record four digits with 1,210 cases , bringing the total cumulative in the country to 49,730 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The Ministry of Health (MOH) is targeting a R naught value or infectivity rate of below 0.5 through public health activities in preventing and controlling the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the number of new cases reported Tuesday, which was 1,210 cases, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":99510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}