{"id":142401,"date":"2021-08-31T18:38:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T10:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=142401"},"modified":"2021-08-31T18:38:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T10:38:57","slug":"malaysia-logs-20897-new-covid-cases-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=142401","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Logs 20,897 New COVID Cases Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 31 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; A total of 20,897 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the past 24 hours in Malaysia, up from Monday\u2019s 19,268 cases, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has recorded more than 20,000 cases daily from Oct 24 to Oct 29, with the highest figure of 24,599 cases being recorded on Oct 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Noor Hisham, in a post on his Facebook page, said the total number of infections in Malaysia increased to 1,746,254.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSelangor (state) recorded the highest number of cases, with 4,371, followed by Sabah (2,594), Sarawak (2,285), Johor (2,159), Kedah (1,942) and Penang (1,732).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, Kelantan recorded 1,479 cases, followed by Perak (1,204), Kuala Lumpur (1,003), Pahang (798), Terengganu (608), Melaka (417) and Negeri Sembilan (215),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, three states recorded fewer than 100 cases, namely Perlis (64), Putrajaya (25) and Labuan (one).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 31 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; A total of 20,897 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the past 24 hours in Malaysia, up from Monday\u2019s 19,268 cases, said Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. The country has recorded more than 20,000 cases daily from Oct 24 to Oct 29, with the highest figure of 24,599 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":111590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,198,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142401"}],"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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}