{"id":134945,"date":"2021-08-15T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T03:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=134945"},"modified":"2021-08-15T11:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T03:28:27","slug":"malaysia-reports-20670-new-covid-19-cases-deaths-pass-12000-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=134945","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Reports 20,670 New COVID-19 Cases, Deaths Pass 12,000 Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Malaysia reported 20,670 new cases of COVID-19, the Health Ministry said yesterday, bringing the national total to 1,384,353.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Ministry Director-General, Noor Hisham Abdullah, said in a statement that, eight of the new cases are imported and 20,662 are local transmissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another 260 deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll to 12,228.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 17,655 patients have been released after recovery, bringing the total number of cured and discharged to 1,128,183 or 81.5 percent of all cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the remaining 243,942 active cases, 1,096 are being held in intensive care, and 540 of those are in need of assisted breathing.&#8211; NNN-BERNAMA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Malaysia reported 20,670 new cases of COVID-19, the Health Ministry said yesterday, bringing the national total to 1,384,353. Health Ministry Director-General, Noor Hisham Abdullah, said in a statement that, eight of the new cases are imported and 20,662 are local transmissions. Another 260 deaths have been reported, bringing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":134950,"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\/134945"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}