{"id":127754,"date":"2021-06-23T15:18:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T07:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=127754"},"modified":"2021-06-23T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T07:18:41","slug":"covid-new-cases-up-again-5244-reported-wednesday-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=127754","title":{"rendered":"COVID: New Cases Up Again, 5,244 Reported Wednesday &#8211; Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 (NNN-Bernama) &#8211; New COVID-19 cases in the country rose to 5,244 cases on Wednesday, after two consecutive days recording below 5,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Twitter post, Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this was an increase of 501 cases compared to 4,743 cases Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest development brings cumulative COVID-19 cases in the country so far to 711,006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Noor Hisham said Selangor still recorded the highest number of daily cases at 2,001 followed by Negeri Sembilan (677); Sarawak (577); Kuala Lumpur (531); and Johor (282).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pahang recorded 245 cases; Kedah (189); Melaka (180); Sabah (129); Penang (159); Kelantan (81); Labuan (77); Perak (75); Terengganu (27); Putrajaya (13); and Perlis just one case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 (NNN-Bernama) &#8211; New COVID-19 cases in the country rose to 5,244 cases on Wednesday, after two consecutive days recording below 5,000. In a Twitter post, Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this was an increase of 501 cases compared to 4,743 cases Tuesday. The latest development brings cumulative COVID-19 cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":117966,"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\/127754"}],"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=127754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}