{"id":130528,"date":"2021-07-14T20:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=130528"},"modified":"2021-07-14T20:16:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T12:16:59","slug":"covid-11618-new-cases-highest-since-pandemic-hit-malaysian-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=130528","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 11,618 New Cases, Highest Since Pandemic Hit &#8211; Malaysian Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, July 14 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia reported 11,618 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest daily record since the pandemic hit the country, Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cumulative now stands at 867,567 cases, while three states recorded four-digit case totals, namely Selangor with 5,051 infections, followed by Kuala Lumpur (1,749) and Negeri Sembilan (1,537).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melaka reported 526 cases; Kedah (504); Pahang (400); Johor (396); Sarawak (289); Sabah (286); Kelantan (236) while Penang recorded 210 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Terengganu had 189 cases, Perak (164), Putrajaya (40), Labuan (38) and Perlis reported three cases,\u201d he said in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the second consecutive day that daily cases had breached the 11,000 mark after 11,079 cases were reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in a separate tweet, Dr Noor Hisham informed that Tuesday also saw the highest number of COVID-19 samples taken for testing, namely 131,706, comprising 71,111 Antigen Rapid Test Kits (RTK-Ag) and 60,595 RT-PCR tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the test capacity could be further increased through private laboratories, mainly for targeted testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, July 14 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia reported 11,618 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest daily record since the pandemic hit the country, Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said. The cumulative now stands at 867,567 cases, while three states recorded four-digit case totals, namely Selangor with 5,051 infections, followed by Kuala Lumpur (1,749) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":97816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,286,198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130528"}],"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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}