{"id":135589,"date":"2021-08-19T18:08:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=135589"},"modified":"2021-08-19T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:08:22","slug":"covid-22948-new-cases-highest-so-far-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=135589","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 22,948 New Cases, Highest So Far In Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia today recorded 22,948 new cases of COVID-19, the highest in a day since the pandemic hit the country.<\/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 the latest development has brought the cumulative number of cases to 1,489,460.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Selangor continued to record the highest number of cases among the states with 7,175, followed by Sabah (2,583), Kedah (2,137), Penang (1,655), Johor (1,526) and Kuala Lumpur (1,439).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelantan recorded 1,271 cases, Perak (1,229), Sarawak (1,206), Melaka (737), Pahang (736), Terengganu (621), Negeri Sembilan (556), Perlis (42), Putrajaya (26) and Labuan (9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Malaysia recorded 22,242 new cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia today recorded 22,948 new cases of COVID-19, the highest in a day since the pandemic hit the country. Sharing the latest data on the viral infection via his Twitter account, Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the latest development has brought the cumulative number of cases to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":99510,"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\/135589"}],"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=135589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}