{"id":132643,"date":"2021-07-29T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T03:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=132643"},"modified":"2021-07-29T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T03:05:36","slug":"malaysias-covid-19-infectivity-up-slightly-at-1-16-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=132643","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s COVID-19 Infectivity Up Slightly At 1.16 &#8211; Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The COVID-19 infectivity rate (R-naught) in Malaysia increased to 1.16 Wednesday from 1.14 Tuesday, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on his Facebook, he said that among states, Terengganu had the highest infectivity rate of 1.33, followed by Kelantan (1.26), and Sabah and Penang (both at 1.25).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine other states comprising Sarawak, Melaka, Pahang, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Perak, Johor and Kedah registered rates of between 1.04 and 1.22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The R-naught value refers to the infectivity of a virus, that is how many individuals can be infected by a positive case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The COVID-19 infectivity rate (R-naught) in Malaysia increased to 1.16 Wednesday from 1.14 Tuesday, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. In a post on his Facebook, he said that among states, Terengganu had the highest infectivity rate of 1.33, followed by Kelantan (1.26), and Sabah and Penang (both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":99510,"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\/132643"}],"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=132643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132643\/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=132643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}