{"id":133715,"date":"2021-08-06T16:32:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=133715"},"modified":"2021-08-06T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:32:16","slug":"covid-malaysia-reports-record-new-infections-with-20889-cases-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=133715","title":{"rendered":"COVID: Malaysia Reports Record New Infections With 20,889 Cases- Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 6 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia recorded 20,889 new COVID-19 infections today, the highest since the pandemic started last year, said Health director-general, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the latest COVID-19 data shared on his Twitter site, he said the new development brings the cumulative infections in the country to 1,224,595 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Selangor state stayed as the main contributor with 8,792 cases reported followed by Kuala Lumpur with 2,483 cases, Kedah (1,371), Sabah (1,291), Johor (1,275) and Negeri Sembilan (986).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Kelantan reported 938 cases, Penang with 776 cases, Sarawak (652), Perak (624), Pahang (610), Melaka (491), Terengganu (460), Putrajaya (122), Labuan (9) and Perlis (9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, Malaysia reported 20,596 new cases of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 6 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia recorded 20,889 new COVID-19 infections today, the highest since the pandemic started last year, said Health director-general, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. According to the latest COVID-19 data shared on his Twitter site, he said the new development brings the cumulative infections in the country to 1,224,595 cases. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":97816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133715"}],"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=133715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133715\/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=133715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}