{"id":125012,"date":"2021-06-04T12:43:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T04:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=125012"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T04:43:20","slug":"covid-rise-in-number-of-critical-death-cases-involving-children-aged-below-five-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=125012","title":{"rendered":"COVID: Rise In Number Of Critical, Death Cases Involving Children Aged Below Five &#8211; Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; There has been an increase in the number of COVID-19 critical and death cases among children aged below five years old this year compared to last year, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said three such fatalities were reported last year while, for this year, the same number of deaths had been recorded in just the first five months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cApart from that, the number of cases of children requiring treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU) also showed a significant increase. In 2020, a total of eight children were treated in the ICU, of which six were under the age of five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs for 2021 (until May), a total of 27 cases required treatment in the ICU and 19 of them were children below the age of five,\u201d he said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, Dr Noor Hisham advised all parties, especially parents and guardians, to play crucial roles in protecting groups with lower immunity, such as babies and children, against COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also urged the public to build a safe environment for this group by fully complying with the standard operating procedure (SOP) and getting the eligible adults vaccinated immediately.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; There has been an increase in the number of COVID-19 critical and death cases among children aged below five years old this year compared to last year, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said three such fatalities were reported last year while, for this year, the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":94390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125012"}],"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=125012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}