{"id":135163,"date":"2021-08-16T17:04:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=135163"},"modified":"2021-08-16T17:04:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:04:44","slug":"covid-new-cases-drop-to-19740-monday-msian-health-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=135163","title":{"rendered":"COVID: New Cases Drop To 19,740 Monday &#8211; Msian Health DG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; A total of 19,740 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Malaysia today, a drop by over 800 cases compared to 20,546 cases Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in a Twitter post, said the new development brings the cumulative cases in the country to 1.42 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNine states recorded four-digit new cases with the highest number of cases reported in Selangor at 5,706 cases followed by Sabah (1,728); Kedah (1,592); Sarawak (1,566) and Johor (1,510),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur also recorded 1,360 cases; Penang (1,251); Kelantan (1,227) and Melaka (1,120).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Noor Hisham said Perak recorded 938 cases; Terengganu (688); Pahang (646); Negeri Sembilan (343), Federal Territory of Putrajaya (43), Perlis (20) and Federal Territory of Labuan (two).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; A total of 19,740 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Malaysia today, a drop by over 800 cases compared to 20,546 cases Monday. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in a Twitter post, said the new development brings the cumulative cases in the country to 1.42 million. \u201cNine states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":129229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135163"}],"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=135163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}