{"id":113735,"date":"2021-02-15T18:11:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T10:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=113735"},"modified":"2021-02-15T18:11:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T10:11:25","slug":"covid-moh-targeting-infectivity-rate-of-less-than-1-0-to-break-chain-of-infection-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=113735","title":{"rendered":"COVID: MOH Targeting Infectivity Rate Of Less Than 1.0 To Break Chain Of Infection &#8211; Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 15 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The Ministry of Health (MOH) is targeting the COVID-19 infectivity rate (Rt) to continue to drop to less than 1.0 and remain at 0.5 to successfully break the chain of infection in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, through an infographic shared on his Twitter account Monday, showed that the COVID-19 Rt according to daily cases nationwide was at 0.89 as of yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, he said the daily COVID-19 cases and the expected number of cases from Sept 20, 2020 to May 31, 2021 according to the Rt projection was 1.1 and 1.2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nation\u2019s COVID-19 Rt has shown a significant decrease since Jan 31, dropping from 1.16 to 0.88 on Feb 11, before rising to 0.92 (Feb 13) and going down again to 0.89 yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Sunday, the cumulative total number of cases nationwide was 264,269, with 49,490 active cases, while seven fatalities were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN- BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 15 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The Ministry of Health (MOH) is targeting the COVID-19 infectivity rate (Rt) to continue to drop to less than 1.0 and remain at 0.5 to successfully break the chain of infection in the country. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, through an infographic shared on his Twitter account Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":107469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113735"}],"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=113735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}