{"id":133492,"date":"2021-08-04T16:33:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T08:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=133492"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:33:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T08:33:32","slug":"covid-new-cases-in-malaysia-hit-record-high-of-19819-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=133492","title":{"rendered":"COVID: New Cases In Malaysia Hit Record High Of 19,819 &#8211; Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia today recorded 19,819 new COVID-19 cases, the highest since the pandemic hit the country early last year, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a posting on his Facebook page, he said the figure showed an increase of 2,714 cases compared to 17,105 cases Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest development takes the cumulative total of COVID-19 cases in Malaysia to 1,183,110.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Noor Hisham said Selangor state still recorded the highest daily tally at 8,377 followed by Kuala Lumpur (2,467); Kedah (1,371); Johor (1,162); Kelantan (1,003) and Sabah (949).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Penang recorded 867 cases; Negeri Sembilan (800); Perak (662); Pahang (558); Sarawak (552); Melaka (508); Terengganu (481); Putrajaya (46); Perlis (11) and Labuan (five).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia today recorded 19,819 new COVID-19 cases, the highest since the pandemic hit the country early last year, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. In a posting on his Facebook page, he said the figure showed an increase of 2,714 cases compared to 17,105 cases Tuesday. The latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":117966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133492"}],"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=133492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133492\/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=133492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}