{"id":135478,"date":"2021-08-18T16:28:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=135478"},"modified":"2021-08-18T16:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:28:55","slug":"covid-22242-new-cases-highest-since-pandemic-hit-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=135478","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 22,242 New Cases, Highest Since Pandemic Hit Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COVID: 22,242 New Cases, Highest Since Pandemic Hit Malaysia<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia Wednesday recorded 22,242 new cases of COVID-19, the highest number since the pandemic hit the country last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharing the latest data on the viral infection via his Twitter account, Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this new development has brought the cumulative number of cases in the country to 1,466,512.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Selangor continued to record the highest number of cases among the states, with 6,858 followed by Sabah (2,413), Penang (1,867), Kedah (1,852), Kuala Lumpur (1,587) and Johor (1,477).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that Sarawak recorded 1,403 cases, Kelantan (1,351), Perak (1,036), Pahang (675), Melaka (579), Negeri Sembilan (577), Terengganu (487), Perlis (50), Putrajaya (25), and Labuan (5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Malaysia reported 19,631 COVID-19 new cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID: 22,242 New Cases, Highest Since Pandemic Hit Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia Wednesday recorded 22,242 new cases of COVID-19, the highest number since the pandemic hit the country last year. Sharing the latest data on the viral infection via his Twitter account, Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":135019,"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\/135478"}],"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=135478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}